Ah, wasps. Your aliases are a clue to the ways you are hated. Hive-minded demons of the air. Lemon-banded bastards. Summer’s disgrace. Yellowjacket wasps are picnic-ruiners, flying snakes with bad ...

Experts have said the surging summer temperatures and the driest spring in a century have caused wasp population to increase ...

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