There are valid reasons to kill yellow jackets if they’re on your property. ‘Most yellow jacket nests are in the ground so most people find them in their yard by accident,’ says Brad Woods.

It's important to act now because a nest of 100 yellow jackets can become thousands by end of the summer. Alex Calamia • Jul 30, 2025, 10:14 AM • Updated 12 days ago Share: 1:35 2:51 1:44 1:38 ...

Paul Guillebeau read somewhere that putting a clear glass bowl over a yellow jacket nest entrance would kill the inhabitants. He tried it twice and it worked as promised.

There's one thing you certainly don't want to do when approaching a nest of more than 100,000 yellow jackets, make them mad. But just in case you stir them up, it's best to use caution.

Without a cold winter to kill them this year, the yellow jackets continued feeding in January and February -- and layering their nests made of paper, not wax. They are typically built in shallow ...

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

Yellow jacket traps will capture adult worker wasps and could catch a queen in March or April when it's building a nest, but at this point in the year it won't do anything to remedy a problem if ...

Yellow jacket traps will capture adult worker wasps and could catch a queen in March or April when it's building a nest, but at this point in the year it won't do anything to remedy a problem if ...