Hello everyone!

I am not sure if its the right place but i dont know where to ask and I am very curious, google search didnt help much.

An hour or so ago, I felt a buzz by my hair, reflexively I brushed with my hand only to have something to buzz and I panicked a lot and slapped whatever it was away. I am new to getting used to insects and I got caught by surprise. I feel really bad, whether it was a bee or wasp, I am not a “smash it” type of person, I usually “remove” myself off their way when I am afraid of bugs…

Only a little after i felt a burning feeling in my ear, then i found a this on my sleeve. When I slapped it away something yellow flew away so I assume it was a bee or wasp. I was wondering if it is possible to identify it from the pictures.

It is not for treatment purposes of course. Just curiosity. I am also not asking if it is a bite or anything. I got a few pictures. I live in Germany/Bavaria, if it helps.

Thank you in advance 🫶🏻

I have an original character that is an anthropomorphic wasp, and I wanna incorporate more wasp-like traits into them. So, how do wasps behave when they’re angry (body language-wise and behavior-wise)?

Just moved into a new house and I see this massive kingdom of doom hanging from a tree in the backyard. Fairly certain it’s a BFH nest. Very clearly abandoned for the winter (or maybe from last winter since this is very broken apart). Hard to tell from pic, but It’s probably almost bigger than a soccer ball.

It’s about 50-100 ft up from the ground. Do I have to be worried about them next season nesting very close by? I don’t know if they typically nest close to former nests or find somewhere completely new.

I have a horrible phobia of wasps/bees/etc so I’m ready to move house again 😂😭

Context: October 25, afternoon in Rhode Island, 66 degrees. Is it coming to the end of its life, or being affected by some type of pesticide or fungus?

This is around 1 inch. It seemed large to me. I don't want it to be a wasp that lays eggs in tree bark. We have a lot of trouble with different types of bark boring insects. I'll release it after I identify it. Pale greenish yellow face and underside. Black and yellow on top. Narrow waist. If it's wood boring, it's toast. Redmond Ridge, WA

I've been dealing with a strange wasp infestation this past week (I believe there was a nest inside a wall that the handyman disturbed) and I've been finding multiple of these guys inside my home from time to time.

They're acting a bit confused, clinging to windows, stopping to groom themselves for a prolonged period before buzzing around, and generally kind of clumsy? I don't know how to explain but they're somewhat docile but also erratic.

Is this a regular wasp? I was reading that perhaps the males are hairier and don't sting?

Hi Reddit,

I was bringing in the trash cans the other night, and I had my flashlight out. We have a little open-air alcove/covered-structure where we put our cans. I was about to put the cans in when I saw on our little white grate a very large, angry looking group of wasps giving me the death-stare. Needless to say, I cheesed it tf out of there, and came back the next night with spray and blasted them. There were a TON of these guys!

I checked on it this morning, and I could not find a nest anywhere. I didn’t see any other remnants or survivors. I may need to sift through the leafy debris a bit more, but there was no big obvious wasp next like I usually see. For this many, I would have expected a larger base.

1: Are these standard paper wasps, or do they look like yellow jackets?

2: Do wasps (maybe end of season?) just decide to conglomerate in a location without a nest for some reason?

3: Do you think they might’ve hollowed out the horizontal 2x4 or w/e that ‘braces’ the vertical posts (picture 4 where I am pointing, and picture 1 with the three dead ones on the slat).

Any advice is appreciated!

EDIT: We are in central TX, if that helps!

I'm not really looking for identification, I just needed to post somewhere I was visited by a wasp queen. Largest yellow jacket I've seen, and it scared the crap out of me until I learned she is docile around this time of year and was likely trying to get out of the cold? (But PLEASE let me know if I should be concerned about worker wasps.) I have no idea how she got in my apartment, but I'm thinking she got in through my AC unit.

I captured her in a cup and placed her outside.

I feel kind of lucky it was a queen. 👑

Saw this thing in my basement with what looks like another bug coming out of the wasp's ass. What. the fuck is going on

Video I took on Aug 22, 2024. Location: Northern Virginia. Is this a cicada killer or a hornet?

I've had a nest of polistes annularis in my balcony potting shed for the last 4 years. It's face height but I've never had any issues with them. Every winter when the nest is dormant, I knock it down so the following year they can't build off of it and will have to start over (since I'm in an apartment complex and don't want like 200 wasps causing problems for neighbors).

I'm moving out this coming spring and I know the renovation crew that comes in will spray the nest and any wasps they see. I don't want any of them to get sprayed.

Could I just try to block off the entire area so they can't get in and start rebuilding? Will they give up and move elsewhere or will they just keep trying to get in until they've all been killed? Can they even move to a new location or is losing their nesting site just a death sentence to this lineage?

Ive been making a big sculpture (posable) of a vespa tropica, and im having trouble with the abdomen (the sclerites, tergites and sternites etc. It's mainly the engineering of the telescopic mechanism that's the problem, and I've resorted to medical records, mri scans, 3d models and more..so I was wondering if anyone could help me with finding any records with images or even 3d scans of each segment if its possible?

My six-day-old sting suddenly woke me up last night due to extreme itching. There are hives all around it now. The whole thing is probably like 4-5 inches in diameter. Is this normal? Should I be concerned?

At first I thought the queen and its subjects were spiking out of the nest for whatever reason. Then, just as I let them out, I realized the larger one was red/orange. It did not look like a paper wasp. I’m just assuming a red hornet was trying to get to the yellow jacket nest.

Sorry about the picture quality.

It’s the size of a small child. MawMaw found it while picking muscadines off the vine that grew in the azalea bush last month. Made dang sure nobody was home before removing it. It’s beautiful. Gonna hang it in my little art room.

It appears to be a paper wasp, I've set up a jar of apple slices and water for it and will take it outside when I find it

Found her on the seat of the work truck when I went to put it back in the garage.

I am petrified at the thought that this might be a scary insect nest. What do you think??😳😳

I keep finding these on my bathroom sink and kitchen window. Any help with an id would be appreciated!