Printouts Yellow Jackets are a genus of very aggressive social wasps. There are many different species of Yellow Jackets. These flying insects have a hard exoskeleton, six jointed legs and four wings.
Females have a stinger at the tip of the abdomen.
All wasps build complex nests with many six-sided cells. They make the nests with a type of paper that they make by chewing wood and plant fibers. The nests are used to lay eggs in and to protect the young. Every winter, all the wasps die except new, mated queens, who burrow into leaves or soil to survive. Without our visitors' support, Enchanted Learning would soon be off-line.