"Very few people have actually seen a yellow jacket queen while it's still in the hive." Meyer won't be driving his 1995 Ford flatbed truck with 348,000 miles on it anytime soon.

Goodisman, Hoffman and Kovacs compared the number of times a yellow jacket queen mated to how successful her colony was. Success was judged based on the number of worker and queen cells in the nest.

Late summer is when most people have their encounters with yellow jackets. They are busy finding carbohydrates to help their colony, specifically their queen, prepare for the winter.

Get a copy of "Common Sense Pest Control," by Olkowski, Daar and Olkowski (Taunton Press, 1991, $39.95). They have quite a bit of info about yellow jackets and many other pests that is quite useful.

Yellow jackets can become very agitated and will attack, possibly in great numbers, if a nest is threatened. Incidentally, a yellow jacket nest can be disturbed by noise and vibration, so don’t ...

Soon after, the old nest gradually empties completely as workers and queen individually leave to die outside. The nest will typically decompose and never be used again. Which yellow jacket species ...

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Social Dynamics Of Yellow Jackets Uncovered Date: February 24, 2008 Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Summary: New research uncovers the social dynamics of yellow jackets, which includes ...