This is a photo of a yellow jacket, which is a type of wasp and is much larger than the hover flies. It can be found throughout Indiana, has two sets of wings and does sting.

Paper wasps and hornets: Larger and thinner than yellow jackets, and usually less colorful. They tend to be less aggressive ...

Yellow jackets and paper wasps are typically a familiar sight this time of year – buzzing around gardens, patios and hiking ...

Yellow jackets are honey-bee size wasp (about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long) that is black in color with bright yellow markings. (Honey bees are golden or brown.) Yellow jackets build paper nests similar ...

Tarantula Hawks have a sting ranking of four while the yellow-jacket wasp ranks at just a two. The only sting more painful is that of the bullet ant which lives in South America.

Abnormally large populations of wasps are affecting areas of Marin County this summer, including Samuel P. Taylor State Park, ...

Boggs said that's because during the day, wasps are active, flying to and away from their home, so you may miss some, but during the night, most will have returns and not be as active either.

He says yellows jackets are a lot more aggressive than bees. “Bees are generally fuzzy, fuzzy and furry and happy like me,” Sheperdigian said. “Yellow jackets are a type of wasp.

They belong to a group or insects called “hunting wasps.” They are solitary wasps that do not have a nest or colony. This sets them apart from the social wasps (paper wasps, yellow jackets and the ...

However, the Fall months are when flying insects like hornets and yellow jackets are most aggressive -- especially when humans trek on or near their turf.