Yellow jackets — properly known as Vespula, Dolichovespula, or Paravespula — are thin wasps with black and yellow coloring and long dark wings. Here you can learn how to treat their stings and ...

A yellow jacket nest found in the roof of a house in Summerville. This nest is 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide and 15 inches thick. Provided ...

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.

Though less immediately painful than yellow jacket stings, an increase in mosquito bites could prove dangerous. In 2023 reporting from the Citizen Times, one Western Carolina University professor ...