Wasp or Yellow Jacket?

[wctriumph]

Yep ...

[Gman]

There are wasps that are predatory toward other unfavorable insects. They're not 'total assholes', but they're also not very common.

[Irving]

I thought most wasps are predatory. I see them taking down moths on occasion. I saw a lot of them eating an elk carcass last week. Could see them pulling off chunks of meat.

[Gman]

Yellow Jackets are considered predatory. They're also attracted to the smell of meat. They're also assholes. I might feel differently about them if they went after mosquitoes. ;-)

[eddiememphis]

[eddiememphis]

24 hours later, no swelling but it got in the knuckle somehow and feels like I bopped it with a hammer. I am amazed how potent the venom is.

[Great-Kazoo]

I thought most wasps are predatory. I see them taking down moths on occasion. I saw a lot of them eating an elk carcass last week. Could see them pulling off chunks of meat.

Were they from Connecticut ?

[zteknik]

Were they from Connecticut ?

Fairfield to be exact...

[davsel]

Ha, one of the little bastards got me on the ring finger the other morning while I was quartering an elk. They found us pretty quick and we fought each other for the meat over the course of a couple hours. I've never killed an elk this early in the season and never had to deal with them before. I killed about a dozen and only got the one sting, and I got a lot more meat than they did, so I call lit a win.

[Zundfolge]

It does bother me when people refer to wasps as bees.

What bothers me more is when people refer to being stung as being bitten. "OMG I just gots bit by a bee!"


Yellow Jackets are Wasps in the same way that Golden Retrievers are Dogs (same goes for "mud daubers" or hornets, etc)