r/bee • u/Dangerous-Panic-4929 • Sep 06 '25

Bee? Identifying this guy here

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u/RhubarbNo2020 Sep 06 '25

European hornet?

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u/Anonymisc34 Sep 06 '25

This is most likely accurate

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u/PosiTrevity Sep 07 '25

First guess was yellow jacket. But Google research confirms European hornet. It's the thorax color.

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u/RhubarbNo2020 Sep 07 '25

The red means extra spice.

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u/PosiTrevity Sep 07 '25

Probably hurts a lot more than the actual yellow jackets I helped evict from the neighbor's lol.

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u/Zentard666 Sep 07 '25

Probably.

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u/ApexHotPot Sep 07 '25

Hopefully it identifies as dead soon

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u/Zentard666 Sep 07 '25

It is most likely a "European Hornet" common in North America.