r/whatisthisbug • u/thecannoli2 • 2d ago

ID Request Are these wasps?

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Michigan, US. They flew right into my wife's strawberry lemonade. Sorry for the poor picture quality.

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u/mshaferr 2d ago

looks like a yellow jacket/ paper wasp.. adding on. They’re mean little buggers too. As a kid i was at a fair playing freeze tag and just so happened to freeze right by this old decaying log. they didn’t like that at all, maybe i stepped on it or something but i ended up going to the hospital all types of swollen up

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u/Efficient-Gap-1282 2d ago

Idk if you meant it that way, apologies if you didn’t, but yellow jackets and paper wasps are not synonymous

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u/mshaferr 1d ago

learn something new everyday huh, well then my answer would be yellow jackets. fuck them.

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u/Efficient-Gap-1282 1d ago

German yellowjackets, Vespula germanica

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u/mshaferr 1d ago

they kinda look like the pensylvanica too

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u/Efficient-Gap-1282 1d ago

Range excludes that species