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 ...

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

German yellow jackets are a species of wasp found in the Northern Hemisphere and are native to Europe. These types of wasps have a bit of a bad temper and are known to sting for absolutely no reason.

Who is in control of your back yard - you or the wasps? They might disagree what you. Learn how to control wasp and yellowjacket populations so you can enjoy nature and be safe this summer.

A yellow jacket sting can be more dangerous if a certain species of the insect is doing the stinging, a new study shows. Of the two most common yellow jacket species found in the eastern US ...

As a curator for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Bees and Wasps of Texas Project on iNaturalist.org, Paul interacts with folks submitting pictures for identification. Some are very ...

A 34-year-old New Hampshire man with “a heart of gold” recently died after he was stung by a yellow jacket wasp, his wife said. Brian Baker Jr., of Winchester, was performing electrical work ...

For years, I was to yellow jacket wasps what Bill Murray’s character, Carl, was to gophers in the movie “Caddyshack”-an obsessed foe whose repeated failures drove me to desperate … ...

René Eisenbart/The OregonianFrom top to bottom: mud dauber wasp, yellow jacket and honeybee. Bees are important pollinators -- good guys among garden insects. So how can you tell if the buzzing ...

There's a reason the age-old expression "Stepping into a hornet's nest" carries such strong connotation.