re: Yellowjackets are underrated

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Biggest issue for yellow jackets is that some people call guinea wasp (common paper wasp) yellow jackets. That discredits the true yellow jacket to a point.

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There's a little yellow and black paper wasp too, smaller than the guinea paper wasp, that we sometimes called a yellow jacket. They aren't aggressive at all, though, and will hang out in a nest and just watch you all day/Summer. I've been stung twice by one of those, and both times by accidentally laying my arm on one.