Northern Common Yellowjacket.
I’m tackling a new organism here with my good old Windsor & Newton watercolours. I love any excuse to use yellow and black together.
Did you know queens are the only members of the colony able of surviving the winter. In April or May, the queen begins each season by selecting a suitable location to constructs a small nest. It then raises sterile daughter offspring. These sterile workers then take over the duties of enlarging and maintaining the nest, foraging for food and caring for the offspring while the queen functions only to produce more eggs.
– Aaron