Wasps are not the best roommates
Wasps can be identified by their slender, needle-thin waists, oval eyes and long antennae. Wasps have three sets of two legs and have a hard exoskeleton covering their three main body parts. Workers are smaller than queens and never lay fertilized eggs. Stinging behavior is usually encountered at nesting sites, but scavenging yellow jackets sometimes will sting if someone tries to swat them away from a potential food source.
Wasps have annual colonies that last for only one year. Nests that are near human activity can pose a potential problem and can become very defensive when their nest is disturbed. Wasps can be particularly aggressive in late summer when colonies reach maximum size. Wasps sting repeatedly, but bees sting only once because bees have a barbed stinger that remains in the victim's skin. Females chew ½-inch diameter holes in wood and bore tunnels that run several inches into the wood.
Queen wasps do not organize their colony or have any raised status and hierarchical power within the social structure. Females are wingless, hairy, extremely active and possess a painful sting. They are difficult to provoke, can sting, but rarely do. Female wasps, bees, and ants can lay dozens to many thousands of eggs, depending on the species. Wasps store sperm inside their body and control its release for each individual egg as it is laid; if a female wishes to produce a male egg, she simply lays the egg without fertilizing it.
At temperatures below 50° F, wasps have difficulty flying. Traps may catch a considerable number of wasps, but not enough are captured to noticeably reduce the wasp population in the fall. Destroying nests in these locations can be difficult, often requiring the services of pest management professionals.
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