Southern and eastern yellowjacket wasps. (A) Vespula squamosa and (D) Vespula maculifrons queen, male, and worker castes displayed left to right. V. squamosa (B) ...

There are many species of yellow jackets native to North America, including the North American yellowjacket (Vespula alascensis), eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons), western yellowjacket ...

A yellow jacket sting can be more dangerous if a certain species of the insect is doing the stinging, a new study shows. Of the two most common yellow jacket species found in the eastern US ...

An eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons). Ken Johnson Ken Johnson An eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons). Despite the bad name they get, yellowjackets are beneficial insects. The ...

An eastern yellowjacket, or Vespula maculifrons. PHOTO BY BRUCE MARLIN . One of the yellowjacket nests removed by Thomas Glazier, co-owner of the Greenfield-Pittsfield territory of Mosquito Joe, ...

Cover image ‘The eyes have it. The yellowjacket wasp Vespula maculifrons lives in complex societies composed of distinct castes, which work together to succeed in the environment.’, copyright ...

A high school teacher trying to solve the mystery of why queen Vespula wasps mate with many different males thinks the practice might have evolved to stave off a catastrophic colony collapse.