The mascot of our local high school is the hornet. So I know what those look like in great detail, however, I wondered how different did a yellow jacket look compared to a hornet. So I looked for images on the internet. If you're like me, you'd like to know which is which. Hornet source: c1.staticflickr.com Yellow Jacket source: www.mikespestcontrol.net Once I found these pictures, I kept looking. I found that there are more types of wasps than I realized: American Pelecinid Wasp source: cdn.c.photoshelter.com Asian Predatory Wasp source: wikimedia.org Black and Yellow Mud Dauber source: www.hmrprint.com Black Flower Wasp source: wikimedia.org Blue-Winged Wasp source: freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com Cicada Killer source: media.cmgdigital.com Common Thread Waisted Wasp source: sicloot.com Cow Killer source: c7.staticflickr.com Cuckoo Wasp source: cdn.c.photoshelter.com Five-Banded Tiphiid Wasp source: bugguide.net Four-Toothed Mason Wasp source: www.whatsthatbug.com Great Golden Digger Wasp source: www.whatsthatbug.com Horntail Wasp source: amazingnature.us Ichneumon Wasp source: wikimedia.org Leucospid Wasp source: entomacrographic.files.wordpress.com Mud Dauber source: bounderrv.files.wordpress.com Mutillid Wasp source: myrmecos.net Northern Paper Wasp source: bugguide.net Paper Wasp source: www.sutter-yubamvcd.org Pepsis Wasp source: arizonadailyindependent.com Pigeon Tremex source: bugtracks.files.wordpress.com Potter Wasp source: gallery.kunzweb.net Ruby-tailed Wasp source: www.mattcolephotography.co.uk Spider Wasp source: media-2.web.britannica.com Tarantula Hawk source: bugguide.net Weevil Wasp source: i.ytimg.com Yellow Paper Wasp source: www.genehanson.com To complete the picture, I decided to look for pictures of bees. Bees have robust, hairy bodies with flat rear legs, whereas the bofdies of wasps are slender with a narrow waist connecting the shiny thorax and abdomen. There are quite a variety of bees too. American Bumble Bee source: a-z-animals.com Augochlora Sweat Bee source: cdn.c.photoshelter.com Cuckoo Bee source: static.comicvine.com Eastern Carpenter Bee source: www.budgetpestcontrolpgh.com Golden Northern Bumble Bee source: bugguide.net Honey Bee source: www.mattcolephotography.co.uk Longhorn Bee source: susanvogelmisicka.files.wordpress.com Small Carpenter Bee source: energy.wisc.edu Sweat Bee source: www.whatsthatbug.com Tri-Colored Bumble Bee source: rtpi.org Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee source: img02.deviantart.net These are all ones I could find on the web. Have I missed any? Speaking of wasps, check out the 3D models of wasps created using free Autodesk 123D software. For example, here's a hornet. There are also 3D models for bees. Here's a Bumblebee: Speaking of bees, here's a quadcopter designed using Autodesk Fusion 360: Check out the Fusion 360 Gallery. Learning about the wasps and the bees is alive in the lab. Go to the original post...