This fellow was very striking with his black and white colours, and was frighteningly large for a wasp. Fortunately, its aggressiveness does not match its fearsome appearance; the workers are usually not as sensitive to disturbance around the nest as some of the other, smaller hornet species, and their tendency to build their paper nests high in trees reduces the likelihood of conflict between humans and the hornet colony. Still, I decided it would be wise to keep a healthy distance as I photographed him!