Was that large, buzzing insect a wasp or a hornet ... Hornets are larger. Wasps have black and yellow rings, while hornets have black and white rings. Hornets vs wasps in appearance, wasps ...
For the first time ever, researchers in Europe have spotted an invasive hornet species that is quite large and ... and females have black to blackish-brown, light-brown and yellow coloring ...
But you may be more familiar with the black and yellow social species. Colonies of social wasps are considered ... When you get a huge nest, you can imagine the large biomass of insect prey they're ...
Dr Sumner and Prof Adam Hart of the University of Gloucestershire came up with the idea of the "Big Wasp Survey", to draw attention to wasps ... with black and bright yellow markings.