- Insect - Social insect - Stinger - Stinging insect - Stinging insect damages paws - Which aerial, stinging pest starts off as an insect? - Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous
insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which
includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow
jackets.
- A flying insect - Large wasp - Stinging insect - A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro)
is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its
sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material,
and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American
white-faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits.