While ground wasps usually aren't aggressive and offer benefits like pollination and pest control, they can sting if disturbed. Luckily, there are several ways to get rid of ground wasps and send ...

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 entrance to a yellow jacket nest is pictured, along with a worker yellow jacket returning to the nest. While enjoying the beautiful weather this weekend, the tire of my mower fell into an ...

Likewise, Nunes said, Woodcock’s staff will destroy any yellow jacket nest that lies too close to a trail, sacrificing it for the greater good. Yellow jackets are wasps.

A yellow jacket nest found in the roof of a house in Summerville. This nest is 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide and 15 inches thick. Provided ...

A yellow jacket is seen hovering at the entrance to its ground nest in Jeff Burbrink’s backyard. Note the bits of sand on surrounding leaves. the workers are removing bits of soil to enlarge the ...

Due to recent rain, you might have found yourself mowing the yard more frequently. If you're like me, you had a scare when you accidentally mowed over a yellow jacket nest. I'm thankful I didn't ...

Georgia toddler left fighting for life after being stung by yellow jackets over 150 times and suffering organ failure Beckham Reed, 2, was playing outside when he hit a yellow jacket nest and got ...

Fall is the season when flying insects like hornets and yellow jackets are most aggressive -- especially when humans trek on or near their turf.

There’s a new product out there called the nest blaster and it serves up a little side order of death to those yellow jackets.

But later that day, with zapped ankles smarting, I watched, with wonder as Norman Patterson Jr. — AKA The Yellow Jacket Expert — thumped the ground, riled the nests and vacuumed the beasties away.