More people say they're seeing lots of yellow jackets, or wasps, this summer, but one University of Utah professor says he hears that comment every year.

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 ...

This follows a natural cycle as the queen builds her colony. Bees hatching in early spring become worker bees, which are the foundation for the colony.