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 ...

Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DOMedically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Yellow jacket stings can cause ... yellowjacket (Vespula alascensis), eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons ...

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 ...

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 ...