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Yesterday while moving a chair in my garden I got stung by a group of wasps. During the night I went hunting for their nests and managed to neutralize 3 of them: one was in the chair's legs, about the size of a child's fist and with a dozen on them inside. It was made of grey hexagonal cells, similar to paper in appearance.

(Sorry for the blurry image, I was a bit scared :-P)

Then I've found another one in a water hose tube that was slightly smaller, but quite active.

And finally a third one in a vase, it was very small, only had a couple of cells in it and wasps were working on it, almost as if they were building it from scratch.

Given the number and size of the nests I'm afraid that they could be spreading in the garden. I have already noticed that a couple of them survived the massacre of last night and I'm worried that unless I kill every of them they might keep nesting.

I don't know much about the hierachical society of wasps, but I was not able to identify the queen (although I haven't checked every single one I've killed). Reading online I've found that killing the queen might mean that the worker would eventually die.

So what kind of wasp is this? What can I do to make sure that they do not keep bothering me?

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Yesterday while moving a chair in my garden I got stung by a group of wasps. During the night I went hunting for their nests and managed to neutralize 3 of them: one was in the chair's legs, about the size of a child's fist and with a dozen on them inside. It was made of grey hexagonal cells, similar to paper in appearance.

(Sorry for the blurry image, I was a bit scared :-P)

Then I've found another one in a water hose tube that was slightly smaller, but quite active.

And finally a third one in a vase, it was very small, only had a couple of cells in it and wasps were working on it, almost as if they were building it from scratch.

Given the number and size of the nests I'm afraid that they could be spreading in the garden. I have already noticed that a couple of them survived the massacre of last night and I'm worried that unless I kill every of them they might keep nesting.

I don't know much about the hierachical society of wasps, but I was not able to identify the queen (although I haven't checked every single one I've killed). Reading online I've found that killing the queen might mean that the worker would eventually die.

So what kind of wasp is this? What can I do to make sure that they do not keep bothering me?

species-identification entomology pest-control wasps

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Yesterday while moving a chair in my garden I got stung by a group of wasps. During the night I went hunting for their nests and managed to neutralize 3 of them: one was in the chair's legs, about the size of a child's fist and with a dozen on them inside. It was made of grey hexagonal cells, similar to paper in appearance.

(Sorry for the blurry image, I was a bit scared :-P)

Then I've found another one in a water hose tube that was slightly smaller, but quite active.

And finally a third one in a vase, it was very small, only had a couple of cells in it and wasps were working on it, almost as if they were building it from scratch.

Given the number and size of the nests I'm afraid that they could be spreading in the garden. I have already noticed that a couple of them survived the massacre of last night and I'm worried that unless I kill every of them they might keep nesting.

I don't know much about the hierachical society of wasps, but I was not able to identify the queen (although I haven't checked every single one I've killed). Reading online I've found that killing the queen might mean that the worker would eventually die.

So what kind of wasp is this? What can I do to make sure that they do not keep bothering me?

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These are European paper wasps.

(They look very similar to yellowjacket wasps but you can notice the antennae; they are brown here whereas they are black in case of yellowjackets. There are other subtle differences too.)

See this post on Gardening & Landscaping stackexchange about getting rid of wasps.

(This part is probably not really on-topic here and I don't want to copy-paste an existing answer in another stackexchange site.)

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These are European paper wasps.

(They look very similar to yellowjacket wasps but you can notice the antennae; they are brown here whereas they are black in case of yellowjackets. There are other subtle differences too.)

See this post on Gardening & Landscaping stackexchange about getting rid of wasps.

(This part is probably not really on-topic here and I don't want to copy-paste an existing answer in another stackexchange site.)

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These are European paper wasps.

(They look very similar to yellowjacket wasps but you can notice the antennae; they are brown here whereas they are black in case of yellowjackets. There are other subtle differences too.)

See this post on Gardening & Landscaping stackexchange about getting rid of wasps.

(This part is probably not really on-topic here and I don't want to copy-paste an existing answer in another stackexchange site.)

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These are European paper wasps.

(They look very similar to yellowjacket wasps but you can notice the antennae; they are brown here whereas they are black in case of yellowjackets. There are other subtle differences too.)

See this post on Gardening & Landscaping stackexchange about getting rid of wasps.

(This part is probably not really on-topic here and I don't want to copy-paste an existing answer in another stackexchange site.)

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