Common wasp

Amazing fact

Common wasp colonies can grow huge if they survive the winter.

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Common wasp colonies can grow huge if they survive the winter.

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The real Common wasp

Facts about the real animal.

A black-and-yellow wasp that lives with its nestmates in large colonies.

Its nest is made of rows of small, honeycomb-like cells, and all members of the colony help raise the young.

It looks very much like a close relative, but its nests are brown.

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

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The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.

This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.