Yellow-vented hornet
Vespa analis
The yellow-vented hornet is a hornet that lives in Southeast Asia. Hornets are the biggest kind of wasps. As its name says, the tip of its tail end is yellow.
Lives in
Southeast Asia
What does it eat?
Like other hornets, it catches insects to feed its young and also likes sweet juices.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Yellow-vented hornet about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is a true hornet, a close relative of the big European hornet.
2
Scientists once gave it at least two other names before finding out they were all the same hornet.
3
There are no different forms or subspecies of it.
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Most asked questions about Yellow-vented hornet
?Where does the yellow-vented hornet live?
In Southeast Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Vespa analis
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Vespidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Vespa analis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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