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 ...

What kind of wasps are in the Lowcountry and how can you avoid stings? Here's what to know about these pesky summer insects.

Little Beckham Reed — who was born with just one kidney — was swarmed by the wasps when he bumped into a nest while riding in a toy car with his cousins in Georgia.

Yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps are able to sting multiple times unlike European honeybees, and are most aggressive when defending their nests.

The Yellow Jacket proved to be mightier than the Hornet Saturday afternoon. Randolph-Macon College – celebrating its 25th annual Back to the Hive reunion for its women’s basketball program ...