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yellow hornet

yellow hornet - small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground

Vespula maculifrons, yellow jacket

hornet - large stinging paper wasp

genus Vespula, Vespula - sometimes considered a subgenus of Vespa: social wasps

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I am the man you met in the woods east of the big river, and whom you tried to persuade to line a yellow hornet to his nest: as if my eye was not too true to mistake any other animal for a honey-bee, in a clear day

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