By mid- to late-summer and fall, yellow jacket populations are at their height. “As their number build up, they gorge ...

A Georgia toddler was fighting for his life after getting stung over 150 times by yellow jackets – sending him to the emergency room with multiple organs failing. At such a critical moment in US ...

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 ...

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.

For most people, a yellow-jacket sting will cause only mild pain, swelling and itching, according to the Cleveland Clinic. But people who are allergic can develop anaphylaxis — a "severe and ...