Yellow jackets have longer, smooth legs. Yellow jackets fly erratically and move in a side-to-side pattern before landing. Yellow jackets often build nests in the ground (especially Vespula species).

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 ...

While enjoying the beautiful weather this weekend, the tire of my mower fell into an underground yellow jacket nest. The unhappy residents of the nest managed to sting me only once, but that ...

Alabamians may be familiar with other lookalikes to the yellow-legged hornets. The cicada killer wasp, eastern yellow jacket and baldfaced hornet are some of the imposters of this invasive species.

A "giant" or perennial yellow jacket nest on the exterior of a home in Alabama. Researchers say when workers survive the winter, it can lead to formation of these massive nests with multiple queens.

While mosquitoes and other insects including bees and wasps disappear after summer, this vicious, aggressive yellowjacket species is starting to dangerously buzz around even more. Eggs laid in the ...

Several species of yellow jackets exist in Indiana. Some varieties build paper nests in trees and off buildings, while others build subterranean nests in creek banks, forest floors, lawns, and ...