The yellow jacket, naughty, nice or neutral? Yellow jackets have a bad reputation as pests that sting, but they are helpful to us by feeding on aphids, caterpillars and other garden pests.

When yellow jackets grab a piece of the bait too heavy to fly with, they then fall in the bucket, get trapped in the water and drown. More: Salem residents are being fined for recycling incorrectly ...

Please, don’t swat at yellow jackets or kill them. Yellow jackets go into attack/defend mode when they feel they are being attacked by your swat. It is best to just move away and not kill a yellow ...

Eliminating yellow jacket nests safely and successfully. Don’t waste your time with insecticides; they can’t penetrate the complex structure of the nest. Instead, ...

The yellow jackets on the other hand, there's no predicting where they're going to be. So all you can do is set out traps right now and trying to catch as many of the queens as you can," he said.

Yellow jackets can be aggressive and sting multiple times. Honey bees tend to ignore people and only sting once if the hive is threatened.

Researchers have found massive, perennial yellow jacket nests in Baldwin, Bullock, Chilton, Clay, Coffee, Dallas, Marion, Montgomery, Shelby and Talladega counties.

Going back to the yellow jackets on the willow, the yellow jackets were going after the sweet honeydew since this is the time of year they begin to forage for sweets.

Yellow jackets for all the aggravation they bring us, are still a part of Mama Nature’s scheme. They prey upon numerous species of pestiferous insects that would, otherwise, destroy our ...