The German wasps – called yellowjackets – have a nastier sting than the common wasp and are currently at their angriest. Quest to find most hated words axed because it got a bit racist ...

The average wasp nest contains 10,000 wasps, although some can house up to 500,000 of the flying critters. The are hundreds of millions of German wasps in the UK, compared to around 240bn common ...

To add to the situation, the UK’s 200 billion German yellowjackets have mostly finished their duties for the season: The species’ queen wasps are done laying eggs and no longer require tending ...

German wasps (Vespula germanica) are very similar in appearance to the yellowjacket but slightly bigger. Trending. Hornets build large nests of a paper-like material made from chewed wood mixed ...

This is a German yellowjacket wasp feeding from an artificial feeder during an experiment. The dots on the thorax are from paint pens used to mark them for individual identification.

The wasps you will most often find in Germany are the “common wasp” and the “German wasp”. They aren’t really dangerous, except to people with wasp allergies.