2007-06-18 15:17:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
They are all wasps. The difference is in the pattern. Yellow jackets are a wide variety of black and yellow wasps. Hornets I believe are black and white. And wasp covers hornets, yellow jackets, and every other wasp.
Interestingly, some of what are commonly called "bees" in the U.S. are actually yellow jackets. As they lack the characteristic wasp waist, and are the same size as honey bees, it's an easy mistake to make.
But, bees are fuzzier than wasps and have thicker, more heavily segmented legs, while the yellow jacket is smooth and glossy (no fuzz) and has spidery legs.
2007-06-18 16:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by Theresa A 6 · 10⤊ 5⤋
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What is the difference between hornets, yellow jackets, and wasps?
2015-08-14 15:18:02 · answer #4 · answered by Ced 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are all called stining insects and have three body parts.hornets usually will nest in a ball shaped nest off a tree branch or on eves on homes are building. The common hornets in the pacific northwest are the yellow and black or the black and white. Wasp have a very thin middle body part called a thorax with a big behind called the abdomen. Yellow jackets are similar to hornets but tend to nest in the ground or in walls of buildings.
2014-07-18 05:55:26 · answer #5 · answered by Ampm Exterminators Pest Control 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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A hornet is a type of wasp. A yellow jacket is technically considered a wasp in the family Vespula I believe. Not all wasps are hornets, but all hornets are wasps. They are not interchangeable. By way of analogy, A Clydesdale is a kind of horse. All Clydesdales are horses but not all horses are Clydesdales, if that doesn't convolute it further. Yellow jackets are not hornets because they don't fall into that subcategory.
2007-06-18 17:55:46 · answer #6 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that common names are not as good as scientific names when studying the relationships within insects.
The order hymenoptera is divided into bees, ants and wasps
Wasps are divided into several superfamilys
I think of it as hornets being a group within certain group of wasps
Yellowjackets are a group within hornets.
2007-06-18 15:30:55 · answer #7 · answered by michael971 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
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they are all different types of insects.
2016-04-02 22:17:34 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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They are all basekly wasps. a hornet is a wasp and a yellow jacket is a type of hornet. get it!
2007-06-18 16:31:59 · answer #9 · answered by night_wolf1694 2 · 2⤊ 9⤋
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what they look like, and where they are
2007-06-18 15:22:41 · answer #10 · answered by ace 1 · 2⤊ 6⤋