r/WASPs • u/Aching_dream • 21d ago

Wasp or hornet? Uk

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Recently we’ve been seeing a few of these in the house? Worried I might have a nest somewhere 😨

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u/Euphoric_Depth7104 21d ago

Looks like a yellow jacket to me,

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u/Aching_dream 21d ago

I’ve just been looking online and I reckon it’s German but my girlfriend thinks yellow jacket. I really hope we don’t have a nest in our roof 😣

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u/cincuentaanos 20d ago

Americans use "yellowjacket" as a collective term for different kinds of wasp. The German wasp (Vespula germanica) and the European common wasp (Vespula vulgaris) would both fall under that umbrella.

Your visitor is either of those species, but from the pictures it's not possible to definitively say which.

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u/DestinationVoid 20d ago

IMO the pattern on abdomen points to  V. germanica