Yes, it was a yellow jacket nest and not a wasp nest, making it so much worse! Wasps are jerks, but yellow jackets are super jerks!CourtneyIf you look closely you can see the span of the nest. It almost covers all the valves. Apparently, yellow jacket nests have holes in the bottom...
Yellow jacket stings are a common summertime occurrence. When a yellow jacket stings you, the stinger injects venom, causing pain, swelling, and itching at the sting site. Fortunately, most reactions are mild and treatable with home remedies like ice therapy, OTC topical anti-itch creams, and ...
John Foxx/Stockbyte/Getty Images Yellow jackets are a member of the wasp family and are one of the most aggressive species found in North America. Yellow jackets are mainly yellow in color, with black stripes covering most of their body. The average yellow jacket adult is usually less than ...
DIY Yellow Jacket Bottle Trap: This is my first instructable, so any feedback is greatly appreciated! After discovering a yellow jacket ground nest near our front door a few days ago, I decided to look up ways to get rid of these mean insects wit
2003 . Annual and multi-year nests of the western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica , in California . Insectes Soc. 50 : 160 – 166 .Visscher PK, Vetter RS. Annual and multi-year nests of the western yellow- jacket, Vespula pensylvanica, in California. Insectes Soc 2003; 50:160-166....
Yellow jackets also create paperlike nests consisting of tiers of rounded combs. They enclose the nest with several layers surrounding the outside, unlike paper wasps, which leave their nests open. Yellow jacket nests can be underground, in cavities of trees or walls, or on tree branches. ...
Yellow jacket, any of 35–40 species (genus Dolichovespula or Vespula) of social wasps, principally of the Northern Hemisphere. Despite the common name, which is used in reference to the typical coloration of the abdomen, with yellow and black markings,
(Prairie Yellowjacket);V. austriacaPanzer;V. consobrinaSaussure (Blackjacket);V. flavopilosaJakobson (Transition Yellowjacket);V. germanicaFabricius (German Yellowjacket);V. maculifronsBuysson (Eastern Yellowjacket);V. pensylvanicaSaussure (Western Yellowjacket);V. squamosaDrury (Southern Yellowjacket...
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Yellowjacket queens can track down old nests.Mampe, Doug