Whats the difference between bees and wasps?

I mean My whole balcony Is covered in bees, Im mean they literally own my balcony so I've become real curious about the bees. So my next question is. ';Whats the difference between the two?'; Plus I sprayed a nest down. They just built another one? I just don't know what to do.Whats the difference between bees and wasps?
More than 25,000 kinds of each insect exist, but there are several relatively simple ways to distinguish between them








When a bee or a wasp stings you, you're probably not paying attention to the curve of its waist or the shape of its legs. But if you were, you'd notice some key characteristics to help you identify it. While bees have robust, hairy bodies with flat rear legs, wasps' bodies are slender with a narrow waist connecting the thorax and abdomen. (The thorax and abdomen are the names given to an insect's mid and rear segments.) In addition, wasps appear smooth and shiny and have slender legs shaped like cylinders.





The reason for the different body types leads us into another difference between wasps and bees: feeding. Bees are pollinators, spending much of their lives visiting various plants and flowers to gather and distribute pollen. They also feed nectar and pollen to their developing young. Their hairy bodies and flat legs are ideal for holding on to the pollen as they carry it from one area to another.





Wasps, however, are predators. While adults may occasionally feed on nectar or pollen, they feed insects, arthropods, flies and even caterpillars to their young. Their bodies are sleeker and more streamlined for hunting.





If you're lucky enough -- or unlucky, depending on the situation -- to find one of these insects' nests, it will help you in identifying bees and wasps. Bees build their nests out of wax cells that they stack on top of one another. Most honeybee nests are manufactured, but other bees make their homes in tree cavities, buildings or even holes in the ground. A wasp's nest consists of one or more rounded combs made of a papery pulp. The wasp makes this pulp out of chewed-up fibers and its own saliva. Wasps tend to build in hidden, out of the way places, like under decks or in remote crevices.Whats the difference between bees and wasps?
There are no strong defined differences, but bees are typically wider, have lots of bristles, and herbivores (feeding mostly on nectar or plant matter) while wasps are thinner, have a narrower thorax, don't have many noticeable bristles, and are carnivorous (feeding mostly on other insects and arachnids).
Bees are fatter than wasps and could only sting once, but if it's lucky it's stinger won't fall off and die. Now wasps have brighter yellow and black colors, they are much thinner than bees, and can sting more than once and not die.
';I sprayed a nest down. They just built another one';





That's a strong indication that you're dealing with some variety of paper wasp or relative (such as a hornet). If the light-grey, papery nest is just a disk hanging from a stalk, it's some kind of paper wasp. If it's a dark-grey, football-looking structure that the wasps go into and come out of near the bottom, it's hornets. Either way, not too comfortable to live next to. If you really want to get rid of them, and don't mind the very toxic wasp sprays, then that's your weapon of choice, but don't breath the vapors and try not to get any on your skin or in your eyes. If you can live with them, wait until winter and then remove the nest on a cold day and get rid of it - hornet nests will likely have some live ones inside, so be careful and keep it as cold as possible.