By mid- to late-summer and fall, yellow jacket populations are at their height. “As their number build up, they gorge ...

Yellow jackets can be a nuisance, and even dangerous, for homeowners. Here’s how to get rid of a yellow jacket infestation.

How to tell the difference between yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps. All three species are under the category of social wasps that produce colonies each year with only the malted ...

Yellow jacket wasps feed their young liquefied insects, with caterpillars, flies and spiders comprising the largest food groups during most of the summer. The effect: Adios, garden pests!

Even the NYPD’s famed “Tony Bees” wanted no part of these nasty little buggers. Just weeks after Detective Anthony Planakis put in his retirement papers, following 20 years as the department ...

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 ...

Kerzicnik said western yellow jackets are scavengers who feed on any type of sugary substance. "And they can fly up to 1,000 yards," she noted. This is why when you walk outside with your dinner ...

Although they are a type of wasp, yellow jackets feature black with yellow stripes, a hairless, segmented body with a thin waist, elongated wings, long antennae, six legs and are about 3/8” to 5 ...

Unlike yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps, bees do not die in the winter, and typically stay alive by staying inside their hive and feeding on honey created throughout the year.