Don't let wasps ruin your outdoor time. Here’s what to do if you see wasps in or around your home and how to keep wasps away ...

Paper wasps are vespid (stinging) wasps that have long legs. These wasps are reddish-brown to black in color with yellow markings. The most common paper wasps are 5/8 to 3/4 inches in length.

Paper wasps. Paper wasps are usually brown with yellowish markings and long legs that hang beneath them as they fly. European paper wasps are often mistaken for bees because they're black with ...

The camera then pans over to show a brown paper bag hanging about a foot or two away from a wasp nest, seemingly devoid of insects. The idea behind the paper bag wasp deterrent trick is that if ...

Those who are old enough may recall a time when all we saw were dark brown paper wasps. Sometime in the 1970’s the European paper wasp was introduced to the eastern United States; by the mid ...

Paper Wasps Paper wasps are 1-inch-long slender wasps with long legs and a distinct slender waist. Most Western species tend to be golden brown or darker with large patches of yellow or red.

Although the ubiquitous insects are quite pretty — northern paper wasps, for example, sport various shades of black, yellow, brown and gold on their exoskeletons — these particular wasps are ...

They’re translucent, but with dark brown veins running throughout. Paper wasps have thin, pointed, translucent wings. The ...

For example, paper wasps generally build little umbrella shaped nests made up of cells exposed to the outside world; hornets may construct huge egg-shaped nests that are completely enclosed and ...

European paper wasps are black, brown or dark red and sometimes have yellow markings, so are frequently mistaken for yellow jackets. Paper wasp nests are shaped like upside down umbrellas, with ...

Paper Wasp nests resemble the shape of an upside-down umbrella. There are hundreds of hexagonal cells within the nest where the wasps rest and feed their larvae. The nest is a grayish-brown color.