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

Learn all about yellow jackets. Most of us view yellow jackets as major pests. However, some of the species help us by feeding on aphids, caterpillars and other garden pests, while the rest play a ...

Pest pros share all of their best and easy tricks to keep yellow jackets away from your home and yard this summer, so you don ...

The Western yellow jacket is the only one of California’s eight or so species with a yellow ring encircling its black eyes. In years with warm, dry springs, it may be extremely abundant ...

What kind of wasps are in the Lowcountry and how can you avoid stings? Here’s what to know about these pesky summer insects.

Yellow jackets and paper wasps are incredibly similar wasps, and it’s difficult for the average person to tell them apart. They’re both yellow and black with thin bodies, slender wings, and similar ...

The most common species of yellow jacket in the South is the Southern yellow jacket (Vespula squamosa). Yellow jackets are commonly mistaken for bees, but they are highly aggressive wasps, not bees.

Many of the hornet and yellow jacket species that sting us are social insects. Unlike solitary insects such as carpenter bees, social insects live in colonies, where hordes of sterile female ...

Bald-faced hornets are an easily identifiable species of yellow jacket. Unlike most other yellow jacket species, the bald-faced hornet has black and white or ivory coloring on its face, thorax ...

With summer comes those dreaded yellow jackets. The yellow and black banded insects are the top stinging pest in Colorado. Their ability to sting multiple times, paired with their aggressively ...

As with any yellow jacket species, the bigger bald-faced hornets will sting repeatedly to defend themselves and their nest. Therefore, the secret to not getting stung is to not tick them off.

Yellow jackets are one species of wasps that are particularly aggressive and likely to sting—sometimes multiple times. A yellow jacket nest or infestation can be dangerous if someone ...