As with any yellow jacket species, the bigger bald-faced hornets will sting repeatedly to defend themselves and their nest. Therefore, the secret to not getting stung is to not tick them off.

Those grayish, roughly football-shaped nests one spies in trees after leaf-fall has left them bare are the products of bald-faced hornets. (The nests of various “paper wasp” species are ...

For the past three years, bald-faced hornets have appeared to be expanding their range in North Iowa. Calls to conservation officers and DNR offices have steadily increased, and record hornet ...