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 ...

The most common — the ones in my yard — are the Eastern yellow jacket, or Vespula maculifrons ... In the spring a queen digs a nest by herself, then lays the fertilized eggs she’s been ...

Q: Could you please advise what to use for bait in yellow jacket traps early in the season ... Some beekeepers can lure bees out of a hive with a queen into a portable hive that they take back ...

Remember when Freddie Mercury wore his iconic yellow jacket on stage at Wembley Stadium? The year was 1986, one year after Live Aid had cemented Queen as rock royalty, and frontman Mercury ...

Even though only one family lives within a colony, each yellow jacket queen mates with several males, creating a complex family tree. "Social insects such as yellow jackets have been described as ...

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 ...