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October Featured Fact Sheet: Yellowjackets

Yellowjackets are commonly confused with honey bees. Yellowjackets are the same size as honey bees, but have bright yellow and black stripes and very little hair. Honey bees tend to be covered with pale yellow fuzzy hairs without a distinctive stripe pattern. Popular cartoon depictions of honey bees are often misleading...and look more like yellowjackets than the honey bees they portray.
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