Honey Bee
Yellow Jacket
Texas Yellow Jackets are not honey
bees. They are from the family of the wasp. They are smaller
then the honey bee, and have a slimmer body. The are much more
aggressive then the honey bee. Another fact about the Texas
Yellow Jacket is that their nests or hives look different then
the honeybee hive. The nests are constructed out of chewed
vegetable fiber and forms a paper carton. Most of their nests
can be found under ground, though we have found them in corners
of buildings and even in trees.
The nests are spherical in shape and are connected or
attached one below another. These are then surrounded by an
outer cover that has many layers.
Unlike the Honey Bee, the Texas
Yellow Jacket seeks out protein sources like live insects and
animal carcasses, and they are known to forage around picnic
tables and even garbage cans. You will even find them when you
are out in a park drinking a soda, that they will come up and
get into your can to drink.
The Texas Yellow Jacket queen is
larger in size then the normal worker, and is orange in color.
These colonies can contain up to 4,000 workers. Late in summer
is the time when these workers get really active.
Close up View of Yellow Jacket Nest
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