Could you please advise what to use for bait in yellow jacket traps early in the season... Yellow Jacket Queen Deserves a Feast SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

They're in the wasp family and are a species of black and white yellow jacket. ... They range in size from 1/2 to 5/8 of an inch long, with the queen reaching 3/4 of an inch in length. ...

With summer comes those dreaded yellow jackets. The yellow and black banded insects are the top stinging pest in Colorado. Their ability to sting multiple times, paired with their aggressively ...

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 ...

"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.

Similar to human paternity tests, comparing DNA sequences of two yellow jackets can show if one is related to another. Goodisman determined the genetic makeup of each of the queen's male mates.

Unlike yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps, bees do not die in the winter, and typically stay alive by staying inside their hive and feeding on honey created throughout the year.

Michael Goodisman could be called the Maury Povich of the yellow jacket world. In his laboratory, Goodisman determines the paternity of yellow jackets to study family dynamics within a colony ...

In previous years, a yellow jacket nest was no larger than a basketball, Ray said. It would contain about 3,000 workers and one queen. These gigantic nests may have as many as 100,000 workers and ...