Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "Last summer I also spent time observing, photographing and filming social wasps in my garden in Dohr (in the Eifel region) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. I spent ...

The findings were used to draw up a map showing the distribution of common wasps and hornets, and how they vary across the UK. The German wasp (Vespula germanica) and the common yellowjacket wasp ...

He said: "Unlike common wasps or German wasps - the two black and yellow ones that folk actively dislike - these don't form colonies and are instead solitary. "They don't bother humans and go ...

This is a young German wasp queen (Vespula germanica), a native Irish species, which was produced this year. She flies late in the year for mating, then will overwinter in piles of logs ...