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 ...

These aggressive stinging wasps build nests that can be completely invisible aside from just a hole in the ground. Here's how to identify a yellow jacket problem and what to do about it.

Yellow jackets are not bees of any kind! Sean in Alexandria, Virginia, writes, “The timing of your recent mention of Yellow Jacket nests was serendipitous, as I just discovered ‘bees’ living ...

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 ...

Most yellow jackets build colonies underground, though their paper-like nests can also be found in dead trees. Of 50 queens that might exit a colony, only two or three might survive to lay eggs ...

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 ...

Provided SUMMERVILLE — Eric “Critter” McCool, world renowned bee extraction specialist, removed a 5-foot tall yellow jacket nest from inside someone’s roof.

Yellow jackets are honey-bee size wasp (about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long) that is black in color with bright yellow markings. (Honey bees are golden or brown.) Yellow jackets build paper nests similar ...

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Yellow jacket nests, by contrast, are large, enclosed conclaves of paperlike material, either hanging like a football from something or built into an underground cavern with an exit hole.

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