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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SUMMERVILLE — Eric “Critter” McCool, world renowned bee extraction specialist, removed a 5-foot tall yellow jacket nest from inside someone’s roof.

Charles Ray, an Extension entomologist and research fellow at Auburn University, said most yellow jacket nests are located in the ground, or in small cavities and have at most 4,000 to 5,000 workers.

A typical yellow jacket nest is usually found in the ground or a cavity — peaking at around 4,000 to 5,000 worker wasps that don't make it through the colder winter weather.

A normal yellow jacket nest is usually in the ground or a cavity. It may peak at 4,000 to 5,000 workers that do not survive cold weather, leaving queens to disperse and form new colonies in the ...

Scientists are warning Alabamians to be cautious of wasp colonies which can grow as big as a Volkswagen Beetle. The state may be on track to mirror 2006 where more than 90 super nests were reported.

Alabama researchers are finding huge — like really, really big — yellow jacket nests across the state. Perennial yellow jacket nests are colonies that survive more than one year, have 15,000 ...

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.