Blackjacket Wasp – Vespula consobrina
This hairy wasp is fairly covered with pollen grains
I have been stung multiple times by the Eastern Yellowjacket – Vespula maculifrons (while stupidly trying to destroy their nest), but never by the bald-faced hornet or the blackjacket. I have been around thousands of bald-faced hornets and yellowjackets and blackjackets in the wild, and they pay no attention to me whatsoever. I cannot stress this enough: they don’t even notice your existence unless you bother them.
Male Blackjacket. Note pitch black compound eyes as opposed to chocolate brown in the bald-faced hornet.
