Insect ID

Hornet

Most do. Not sure
about that particular
one.

Ok. We have found 8 or so of them in my kitchen over the last week. Terminix is coming next Thursday but I want to if it is an emergency and they need to sooner.

Pretty sure it's a blackjacket.

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Hornet

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Do they sting?

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Did you grow up in a bubble?

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Dolichovespula maculata is a eusocial wasp of the cosmopolitan family Vespidae. Its colloquial names include the bald-faced hornet, bald hornet, white-faced hornet, white-tailed hornet, spruce wasp, blackjacket, andbull wasp. This species is a yellowjacket wasp, not a true hornet (genus Vespa). Colonies contain 400 to 700 workers, the largest recorded colony size in its genus,Dolichovespula.[1] It builds a characteristic large hanging paper nest up to 58 centimetres (23 in) in length. Workers aggressively defend their nest by repeatedly stinging invaders

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Bald-faced hornets are omnivorous, and are considered to be beneficial due to their predation of flies, caterpillars, and spiders. However, their aggressively defensive nature makes them a threat to humans who wander too close to a nest or when a nest is constructed too close to human habitation. They vigorously defend the nest, with workers stinging repeatedly, as is common among social bees and wasps. However, the baldfaced hornet has a unique defense in that it can squirt venom from the stinger into the eyes of nest intruders. The venom causes immediate watering of the eyes and temporary blindness

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Bald faced hornet (wasp related to the yellow jacket). They sting like a mother and some people say it feels like getting shot. I don't know if that's true but I don't want to find out.

Damn...not only can they sting...but they can sting repeatedly? Wow. Wasp with an automatic rifle....not cool.

I don't know what it is, other than some wasp species, but it's not a bald-faced hornet. Look at the stripes vs. blotches on the abdomen.

I'm going with some kind of Mason or Potter wasp.