Some of these social wasps, such as yellow jackets, may scavenge for dead insects to provide for their young.

Many social wasps produce nests that are constructed predominantly from paper pulp.

Not all social wasps have castes that are physically different in size and structure.

Like others in the genus, they prey on ants, social wasps and other arthropods.

They include the social wasps such as paper wasps and hornets.

In the other social wasps, instead, the food is supplied by the adults directly into the mouth of the larva.

She is also an entomologist notable for her work on the behavior and evolution of social wasps.

Hornets are the largest of the social wasps.

Ducke's general classification of the Neotropical social wasps is still used.

This is quite unlike the bald-faced hornet or other social wasps.