Unlike the yellow jacket, bumble bee nests don’t have combs. Instead, the bees make wax cups on the floor of the nest and fill it with nectar and pollen for bee larvae to crawl around in.

By fall, yellow jacket nests have produced a crop of new queens and males. By the first frost, ... bush or tree branch. Their long legs and thin "waists" distinguish paper wasps.

The call for help was posted on the Clifton community Facebook page Oct. 29. A 1-year-old boy was stung multiple times in his front yard by yellow jackets, and his father wanted the nearby nest ...

Yellow jackets can become very agitated and will attack, possibly in great numbers, if a nest is threatened. Incidentally, a yellow jacket nest can be disturbed by noise and vibration, so don’t ...

This year, the yellow jackets seem to be in a hurry. Ray said his email is flooding with potential sightings of "super nests." By mid-May he confirmed two in person, and since, at least 10 others ...

Western yellow jackets, which typically build their nests inside rodent burrows or tree hollows, are the most common wasps in California and reach their peak population this time of year.

As fall approaches, yellow jackets become increasingly prevalent and aggressive, often mistaken for bees. Mark Sheperdigian from Rose Pest Solutions explains that yellow jacket nests grow large by ...

In the fall, yellow jacket nests die off save for the queen who overwinters and begins looking for a new nest site in early spring. ... cone-shaped nests from eves or tree branches.

Yellow jackets tend to nest in more secluded places like brush piles, ... You will be most likely to disturb them by pruning a tree or bumping into a nest with a piece of equipment.

Yellow jackets stay active until late fall when a killing frost takes out the workers and males. The queen leaves the nest and overwinters in a sheltered spot, such as under tree bark. In the ...

Let’s take a look at the “Life of a Yellow Jacket;” allow me to start in the spring. A new yellow jacket queen starts a nest. This could be in abandoned burrowing animal nests (like voles or chipmunks ...