<P> Yellowjackets' closest relatives, the hornets, closely resemble them, but have larger heads, seen especially in the large distance from the eyes to the back of the head . </P> <P> Yellowjackets are social hunters living in colonies containing workers, queens, and males (drones). Colonies are annual with only inseminated queens overwintering . Fertilized queens are found in protected places such as in hollow logs, in stumps, under bark, in leaf litter, in soil cavities, and in man - made structures . Queens emerge during the warm days of late spring or early summer, select a nest site, and build a small paper nest in which they lay eggs . After eggs hatch from the 30 to 50 brood cells, the queen feeds the young larvae for about 18 to 20 days . Larvae pupate, then emerge later as small, infertile females called workers . Workers in the colony take over caring for the larvae, feeding them with chewed up meat or fruit . By midsummer, the first adult workers emerge and assume the tasks of nest expansion, foraging for food, care of the queen and larvae, and colony defense . </P> <P> From this time until her death in the autumn, the queen remains inside the nest, laying eggs . The colony then expands rapidly, reaching a maximum size of 4000 to 5000 workers and a nest of 10,000 to 15,000 cells in late summer . (This is true of most species in most areas; however, Vespula squamata, in the southern part of its range, may build much larger perennial colonies populated by scores of queens, tens of thousands of workers, and hundreds of thousands of cells .) At peak size, reproductive cells are built with new males and queens produced . Adult reproductives remain in the nest fed by the workers . New queens build up fat reserves to overwinter . Adult reproductives leave the parent colony to mate . After mating, males quickly die, while fertilized queens seek protected places to overwinter . Parent colony workers dwindle, usually leaving the nest to die, as does the foundress queen . Abandoned nests rapidly decompose and disintegrate during the winter . They can persist as long as they are kept dry, but are rarely used again . In the spring, the cycle is repeated; weather in the spring is the most important factor in colony establishment . </P> <P> The diet of the adult yellowjacket consists primarily of items rich in sugars and carbohydrates, such as fruits, flower nectar, and tree sap . Larvae feed on proteins derived from insects, meats, and fish, which are collected by the adults, which chew and condition them before feeding them to the larvae . Many of the insects collected by the adults are considered pest species, making the yellowjacket beneficial to agriculture . Larvae, in return, secrete a sugar material to be eaten by the adults; this exchange is a form of trophallaxis . In late summer, foraging workers pursue other food sources from meats to ripe fruits, or scavenge human garbage, sodas, picnics, etc., as additional sugar is needed to foster the next generation's queens . </P>

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