Yeah that was bothering me too. The yellow jacket thing I mean. Also, apparently in other parts of the world they're brown, so you don't even get the visual warning they're around. They just show up like the Spanish inquisition and ruin your day.
In layman's terms, around here wasp/hornet/jacket is all interchangeable, as most people are to busy trying to avoid them rather than identify them. Paper wasps can look almost exactly like yellow jackets, but have different behaviors. Even scientifically speaking, hornets and jackets are wasps anyway. All jackets and hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets or jackets.
I taught my daughter when you see a small fuzzy bee with short wings they are friends. If you see a skinny hairless to barely any hair long winged bee KILL THAT BITCH!!!!
Don't kill it! I've had paper wasp hives around my house for years and I've only ran into three problems 1) They decided to build a nest in my garage right above the door going into the house; the only issue was the location. 2) They built a nest in my cable box; again location, but this time I ate the larvae because I was curious. It was good. 3) They built a nest right next to where I smoke on my patio. For years this worked and we had no beef, but then one day my friend was stung; I sighed, then I wrapped a plastic bag around the nest. It's been over a year, but they can live for a surprisingly long time dormant... so I haven't taken the bag off yet. It sucks because the nest is also inside of my patio light and I really need to change that bulb.
My husband is highly allergic to all things that sting. Me and my daughter are not. So we have to protect him. And bees are the only ones I have seen that we can kind of get to leave where as wasp and yellow jackets are always out for blood.
Have you ever seen a praying mantis eat? They are vicious. When I lived in North Carolina I had issues with grasshoppers eating my garden but we also had a section with 7 foot tall cosmos and zinnias where mantises loved to hang out. I would catch the grasshoppers and toss them near a mantis and watch and wait. They would snap the hoppers with their bear trap like front legs and crunch right through their exoskeleton, eat the whole thing alive. Sounded like someone eating a bag of chips.
In all seriousness, I wouldn't have to train her. The mantis would eat the ladybugs that eat the mites that would eat a cannabis grow. I really, really, really want that mantis. She also has the benefit of being FAR easier to spot in that foliage than a green mantis would be; meaning I don't accidentally harm her.
The last one seems to be some kind of praying mantis.