Story of my life.
I know all that.Cats are handy little bastards, out here in ruraldom, the have 3 and the neighbor doesn't, we met at the fence last week and he showed me pictures of a couple rattle snakes he recently killed around his yard, warning me to watch out.
When I first moved here we had no cats and I killed a couple each year. Got the 3 cats and no more snakes for the last 13 years. The rodent population is also decimated.
Those would be paper wasps/ Hornets.