We know them as hornets, yellowjackets, and paper wasps. They are closely related to ants and bees, which are also in the same order.
Social wasps live together in communities called colonies.
An underground yellowjacket nest, on the other hand, can be the size of a bushel basket and sometimes larger. A nest of this size can have five thousand or more hot tempered, stinging insects. Sometimes it collects fiber from man-made paper products such as paper bags or cardboard boxes. The insect then chews the wood and mixes it with saliva. This makes the wood fiber extremely soft and moist.