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For the past few weeks, in between raindrops, I have been trying to paint the lower part of our house. When I removed the shutters, I found a small community of wasps, spiders and other insects.

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Many were not even wasps. One report turned out to be a plastic toy. The Asian hornet is a very large social wasp (about an inch long), but it’s slightly smaller than our resident hornet.

If you've recently noticed an uptick in activity from insects of a stinging variety—mainly yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps—you're not alone.