A red wasp buzzed and tapped against the ceiling.

The next generation of red wasp queens and the males appear by the end of August.

The nest of the red wasp is relatively small with a diameter which rarely exceeds 20 cm.

The Red Wasp is reluctant to sting, not even in the vicinity of the nest.

Red wasps prefer to capture live arthropod prey to feed their larvae and rarely scavenge.

This differs from typical red wasps V. rufa of the western Palearctic in having ivory rather than yellow markings.

Nodens is mentioned in Red Wasp Studios' "The Wasted Land".

To rear one queen, Red wasps require only 1.1 worker, this contrasts with the common wasp which requires over 10 workers to rear a single queen.

In the Ultimate Comics: Avengers a new Wasp appears (called Red Wasp).

Vespula rufa, the red wasp or Northern red-banded yellowjacket, is a species of eusocial wasp with a holarctic distribution.

Vespula austriaca is a rarely collected species which is an obligatory social parasite of the red wasp V. rufa within the palearctic portion of its distribution.

She is killed by Jan Pym, but resurfaces as part of Nick Fury's Avengers with the codename Red Wasp.

The Red Wasp is less associated with human structures than the Common or German wasps and as a result is not as easily observed as these two species.

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a Lovecraftian horror tactical role-playing game developed by Red Wasp Design in conjunction with Chaosium.

Petra Larskov (aka the Red Wasp/Insect Queen) then enters the room dressed as a doctor and shoots Red Skull in the head, killing him.

However this was all a part of his plan to get to the Red Skull as during the fight Cap managed to place tracers on War Machine, Red Wasp, and Black Widow.

During the first arc, the Avengers consisted of War Machine, Nick Fury, Hawkeye, Gregory Stark, Red Wasp, Nerd Hulk, the Spider, and Black Widow II.

The red wasp is the main host of the red cuckoo wasp V.austriaca which takes over the nest just as the workers are about to emerge and uses them to rear its own queens and males but it does not produce any workers.

These "Avengers" includes Fury's ex-wife, Monica Chang aka the new Black Widow, a new Wasp known as Red Wasp (aka Insect Queen), War Machine, and an intelligent clone of the Hulk.

In April 2011, Chaosium and new developer Red Wasp Design announced a joint project to produce a mobile video game based on the Call of Cthulhu RPG, entitled Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.

Vespula rufa usually has brownish red markings on the first and second abdominal segments, coupled with the pattern of black markings, and these make identification of red wasps relatively straightforward compared to the Common Wasp V. vulgaris and the German Wasp V. germanica.