The maximum size of a bumble bee nest is about 600 bees, while yellow jacket nests could contain ... around 1848 and slowly spread across the eastern half of the United States, prefer hollowed ...

The most common — the ones in my yard — are the Eastern yellow jacket, or Vespula maculifrons. Unlike bald-faced hornets’ self-evident gray paper nests, yellow jackets nest underground or ...

Yellow jackets are social insects and very territorial in nature. A yellow jacket colony can get quite ... If you spot an underground nest, get insecticides meant for yellow jackets from a ...

A yellow jacket nest or infestation can be dangerous if someone accidentally disturbs the nest, and people allergic to yellow ...

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 ...

Patterson mainly sees eastern yellowjackets in the state ... Patterson Jr.) Patterson said the best way to spot an active nest is seeing a consistent flow of traffic of bees into a bush, in ...

At this point in the season, Boggs said all insects in yellow jacket, bald-faced hornet and ... heel is the winter," Boggs said. "The entire nest dies, so it's really a matter of waiting them ...

Southern yellowjackets are a more vicious kind of yellowjacket, typically found in the eastern U.S. and as ... he has ever been with southern yellow jacket removal in Connecticut.

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

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 ...