Yellowjackets, paper wasps, mud daubers, and hornets are some of North America's most common wasp species ... just long enough to fertilize new queen wasps. Queens are the longest-living wasps ...

Below are three common types of wasps nests to look out ... a location for a new nest where they will lay their eggs. Queen wasps are significantly larger than worker wasps, often up to three ...

German wasps and common wasps tend to form nests in the ground ... “Some nests survive the winter and are occupied by multiple queens. By the end of the second season, there are millions and ...

The research team hypothesizes that the queen wasps’ copulation patterns are a result of evolution to prevent diseases from killing off their colonies. It is common for a queen bee or ant to ...