Texas Gardening: Where are all the wasps this year?, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Yes GD, that is a Royal Red bush. It is doing very well this year which makes me and all the bfly's happy!

LOL Podster, I thought maybe I posted something wrong. GD, if the hummingbird moth is new to you then you are in for a treat! Here's a pic of it further away. You gotta know what you're looking at!

Like I said, I have things that are lumped into on category of "bees". lol You know how we Texans lump every soda in the "coke" category! think that's what we have always done with these yellow and black wasps that build their nests UP off the ground.

Everyone I know has always called them Yellow Jackets and even the wasp catchers call them that but I do think that true YJ make their nests in the ground. Thank God I have never had those because I hear they are Mean!

So podster, please help me and educate me as to what I might really have! Really! Or you could send me to the BugFiles but I could be there forever. :)