Adult Western yellow jacket on soda can Yellow jacket and paper wasp queens begin their nests in spring when the weather becomes warm. From spring to midsummer larvae require large amounts of protein.

Bender said western yellow jackets are mostly to blame, but many of the nests that vector control officials removed were from paper wasps. The species, which is native to Europe, North Africa and ...

Yellow jackets. The most commonly encountered species is the western yellow jacket, sometimes referred to as the “meat bee.” These wasps are medium-sized and black with jagged bands of bright ...

Paper Wasps Paper wasps are 1-inch-long slender wasps with long legs and a distinct slender waist. Most Western species tend to be golden brown or darker with large patches of yellow or red.

Rick Vetter is desperately searching for yellow jackets. He hunts Southern California’s foothills and flatlands, its urban and suburban neighborhoods. He scours theme parks, schools and zoos. At ...

Paper wasps are around 1-inch long with long legs and can range in color, from reddish-orange to black, sometimes with yellow highlights. Their nests are typically umbrella-shaped and have fewer ...

The Western yellow jacket (Vespula pensylvanica) ... Some less expensive and non-toxic traps for wasps include the yellow jacket inn, wasp trap, and the oak stump farm wasp trap.

“Your wasps -- which by the way, yellow jackets are truly a wasp -- they are meat eaters, they are carnivores.” (fermate/Getty Images/iStockphoto) Q: They’re not going to go after my steak ...

while yellow jackets and other wasps can be a nuisance at outdoor events or even on your walk by swarming or stinging, you bog says they do bring many benefits to local ecosystems along the way.

Severe flooding in western North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Helene has stirred up colonies of yellow jackets, raising the risk of stings. The rain and floodwater most likely destroyed the ...