Yellow jacket wasps (Vespula spp.) are the banded, yellow-and-black ringleaders of bad bugs. Dossier: They aggressively work our yards, searching for any and all sweets. Picnics, fruit trees and ...

Yellowjackets (Vespula spp.) are banded yellow or orange and black and are commonly mistaken for honey bees, but they lack the hairy body and are more intensely colored. Yellowjackets typically nest ...

Wasps do plenty of good in our gardens, pollinating plants and preying on hungry garden pests, such as caterpillars. But then there are yellow jackets (Vespula spp), which become aggressive as ...

Yellow jackets often build nests in the ground (especially Vespula species). Yellow jackets are aggressive and will chase you if threatened. Honey Bees. Honey bees are rounder with a thicker "waist." ...

However, some of the species help us by feeding on aphids, ... Although yellow jackets (Vespula species) are social insects like honeybees, they use their nests for only one season.

We investigated sensitization to Hymenoptera antigens as a possible cause of these symptoms. The patients with symptoms after drinking red wine were sensitive to both vespula and polistes species ...

Heptyl butyrate is a colorless liquid with a chamomile-like odor that is found abundantly in fresh apples and plums. In late summer, as these fruits begin to fall from trees, swarms of yellowjackets ...

Recently, Norm noticed a rare species of yellowjacket called the Vespula Squamosa, or the ‘southern yellowjacket’. Over the last 50 years, the warmer weather brought these insects further North.