An insect that can have a black body and yellow tail, flies, and stings may be a hornet. Many species of wasps and hornets match this description.
You might be thinking of a banana spider?
Yellow Jacket...wasp family!
I was bitten today by a small black insect with yellow stripes, I think it was a spider but I am not too sure.
grass spider
The Cicada Wasp has a black body with blue wings. This wasp also features red and yellow stripes near its stinger.
Bees have stripes that are black and yellow.
6 Yellow stripes .
It's a hummingbird moth. http://www.worldofhummingbirds.com/moth.php
All bees will lose their stinger as well as some wasps and yellow jackets. Bellow I posted a link that shows the difference between the main types of bees, yellow jackets, and wasps that you will find in North America. http://www.beeremovalspecialist.com/
Other than the obvious of a stinging insect with yellow and black stripes, if applied to a person, it usually means 'White Anglo Saxon Protestant'.
Lithuanian flag has yellow, green and red horizontal stripes.
No. They are black with yellow stripes; or yellow with black stripes. Does it really matter?
If a grasshopper with red stripes mates with a grasshopper of yellow stripes, there is a ratio of phenotypes present. A 75-25 ratio would be expected of red to yellow stripes.
40... obviously !