Yellow Jacket

Yellow Jacket

A Yellow Jacket wasp can sometimes be mistaken for a Bee, but they are actually wasps which are only distant relatives to Bees.  Yellow jackets may occasionally visit flowers for sugar, but unlike Bees, they are carnivorous with insects being their favorite.  Also, they have no brushes or pollen baskets for carrying pollen.  Like Honeybees and Bubble Bees, they have a painful sting.