Raspberries: Yellow Jackets

Yellow jackets (e.g. Vespula spp. and Dolichovespula spp.) along with hornets (Vespa spp.) are voracious feeders of raspberry fruits, and create dangerous situations to pickers.

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Yellow jackets can build papery nests on buildings, in doorways, and on branches of trees or bushes.

Soccer ball-sized, spherical nest made of papery swaths of gray-brown material. Nest is attached to lower ledge of door that opens into barn, facing barn inside.
Yellow jackets can build their nests in surprising and easily-disturbed areas.

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