Rising soil and air temperatures, increasing daylight, and returning moisture trigger insects and other pests to come out of dormancy, resume breeding, and start searching for food.
What's the difference between a wasp and a hornet?
All hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets. Hornets are a larger, more aggressive subset of the wasp family, and they build enclosed paper nests rather than the open-comb nests common to other wasps.