Yellowjacket
This little yellowjacket is on her last legs, or possibly wings. She got in the house and managed to stay up in the upper loft windows until dehydration brought her to ground. You can see here that she’s gotten into some windowsill dust, and is too tired to preen herself clean.
Yellowjackets are cousins to wasps, but are closer to hornets. Wasps tend to be thin and agile, fighting with a quick stab of their stinger. Hornets, on the other hand, are bigger and stronger and will often kill prey with their jaws. Yellowjackets are smaller than most hornets, and while they still favor meat in Autumn like hornets, they tend to be more scavengers than hunters.
Slowly getting the site back onto an even keel. It's nice to get back into the old posting rhythm.