Stinging Insects in Tennessee

Wasps, yellowjackets, and bees get mixed up. Nest shape and color tell you what we treat and how close we get.

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Carpenter Bees

Look like a bumblebee with a shiny black abdomen. They drill a perfect round hole in bare wood and nest in the gallery.

Mud Daubers

Solitary wasps. They do not live in a paper colony. They build mud tubes on walls, in garages, and under eaves. Thin waist, dark body, some…

Paper Wasps

Brown with yellow marks, long legs. Open-comb umbrella nest under an eave — no outer shell. Semi-social, smaller colonies than yellowjackets…

Yellow Jackets

Bright yellow and black, defined waist. Colonies can pass 4,000 workers. Nests in the ground or a wall void — not an open comb under the eav…

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