Yellow jackets and paper wasps are incredibly similar wasps, and it’s difficult for the average person to tell them apart. They’re both yellow and black with thin bodies, slender wings, and similar ...

Unlike yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps, bees do not die in the winter, and typically stay alive by staying inside their hive and feeding on honey created throughout the year.

Bee stingers have barbs, so they stay in the skin, then break off from the insect and it dies. Yellow jacket stingers are smooth, ... Bee or yellow jacket sting. (2022) ...