The wasps are easy social insects in reconnaitre by their size (about 1 - 1,5 cm), their colour alternating the yellow and the black, their wings folded longitudinally in rest, striction who separates the thorax and the abdomen. Besides these characters, the wasps do not lose their sting afterwards...

The stinging insects, they are first of all hym nopt res, wasps and honeybees, often responsible for allergic reactions. At every individual, an injection of honeybee or of wasp causes a pain and, at the end of some hours, a local inflammatory reaction of a lower diameter to 5 cm, more important in regions...