Yellow jackets — properly known as Vespula, Dolichovespula, or Paravespula — are thin wasps with black and yellow coloring and long dark wings. Here you can learn how to treat their stings and ...

Find out what you need to know about yellow jacket stings, discover the best way to treat them, and learn how they may affect health. Skip to main content . Home ; Conditions .

By mid- to late-summer and fall, yellow jacket populations are at their height. “As their number build up, they gorge ...

Since yellow jackets like foraging in landfills, they may carry harmful bacteria (germs) on their stingers. Getting stung by a contaminated yellow jacket stinger can cause infections or blood ...

When a yellow jacket stings, its barb-like stinger pierces the skin and injects you with venom consisting of toxins called mastoparan and phospholipase A1 and A2. Unlike bees, yellow jackets can ...

Always cover food and drinks to keep yellow jackets out (Photo: Getty Images) ... As mentioned before, most of the time, these bugs don’t leave a stinger. But sometimes they do break off.

Yellow jacket stings are painful and can cause symptoms that can range from mild to life-threatening. Treatment includes basic first aid and medication.

Doctors say if you’ve been stung and the stinger is still in your skin, you should pluck it out or scrape the back of a knife across the stinger. If you get stung by a yellow jacket and aren’t ...

One overlooked impact of Tropical Storm Helene's destruction in Western North Carolina stings more than others - literally. Because of the high winds and catastrophic flooding brough by Helene to ...

Melissa Sue Gerrits / Getty Images. ... Severe flooding in western North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Helene has stirred up colonies of yellow jackets, raising the risk of stings.

Though less immediately painful than yellow jacket stings, an increase in mosquito bites could prove dangerous. In 2023 reporting from the Citizen Times, one Western Carolina University professor ...