Wasp Identification

While easily confused at a distance or without close observation, there are many different characteristics of bees and wasps which can be used to identify them.

Notes

1. ^ that is in general. Some are mostly black
2. ^ there are different geographic colour forms
3. ^ or more
4. ^ When walking, light-colored pollen on the pollen baskets on a honeybee's rear legs can be visible.
5. ^ Domesticated bees have been selected over time for gentleness. There are several races of domesticated honey bees with varying characteristics of honey production, disease resistance and gentleness.
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Aggressive hive defense
7. ^ ^{a b} Other hornet species (those not European hornet) have a more toxic sting, and are more aggressive.
8. ^ Yellowjackets are carnivorous during the brood rearing part of the season. They feed insects to their brood, and obtain the sugar for their flight-muscle energy mostly from secretions of the brood. During this time they can be attracted to traps baited with meat or fish. Near the end of summer, when brood rearing ceases and this sugar source is no longer available, yellowjackets become frantic for sugar, and can be baited with sugar-based baits. They are also much more likely to visit fall flowers for nectar, than they are earlier in the season.
9. ^ Since the barbed stinger evolved as a colony defense against vertebrates, the invariable outcome of stinging a mammal or bird is that the stinger becomes lodged in the victim's skin and tears free from the honey bee's body, leading to her death within minutes. As such, there is rarely any evolutionary advantage for a bee to sting a mammal to defend itself as an individual; honey bees will generally only sting when the hive is directly threatened, and honey bees found in the field or on a flower will rarely sting. Note: Africanized honey bees can be more aggressive than the more common European honey bees, but still only defend the hive, and their sting is the same.
10. ^ unless nest is disturbed
11. ^ Also barns, attics
12. ^ Has a brown protective layer when the nest is in an unsheltered position. Also barns, attics, hollow walls, abandoned bee hives

See also

• Schmidt Sting Pain Index

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