Southern queens then actively seek out established eastern yellow jacket nests, kill the resident queen, and take over her colony. Goodisman and his research team hope the genome provides insight ...

The most common — the ones in my yard — are the Eastern yellow jacket, or Vespula maculifrons ... In the spring a queen digs a nest by herself, then lays the fertilized eggs she’s been ...

Let’s take a look at the “Life of a Yellow Jacket;” allow me to start in the spring. A new yellow jacket queen starts a nest. This could be in abandoned burrowing animal nests (like voles or chipmunks ...

An adult yellow jacket (Paravespula germanica ... Until the first batch of workers hatches, the queen must forage for all the food herself, and this two- to three-week period is when she is ...

At this point in the season, Boggs said all insects in yellow jacket, bald-faced hornet and ... from the hives will fly off and mate, and the queen will go to find a protective location to survive ...

In addition, if the severe weather killed a yellow jacket queen, the rest of her colony might be flying around aimlessly. “Populations are just kind of spilling out, so you don’t have one ...