Yellow jackets — properly known as Vespula, Dolichovespula, or Paravespula — are thin wasps with black and yellow coloring and long dark wings. Here you can learn how to treat their stings and ...

The wasp species Vespula shidai has long been reared for its edible larvae, a delicacy in central Japan.The rural woodlands of Japan which these wasps inhabit are areas of high biodiversity ...

The wasp species Vespula shidai has long been reared for its edible larvae, a delicacy in central Japan. The rural woodlands of Japan which these wasps inhabit are areas of high biodiversity.

The common wasp, or vespula vulgaris, has been on Earth for millions of years. Its lineage dates back about 260 million to 270 million years to the Late Permian period. The oldest fossils are from ...

An Aussie mum has shared painful details about the moment she was suddenly attacked by a swarm of aggressive wasps, leaving her with roughly 20 excruciating welts all over her body. The 33-year ...

Requests for allergy medication in North Carolina have shot up in the wake of Hurricane Helene, after the devastating rains and flooding seen in the state also disturbed the nests of yellowjackets ...

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, ...

But conflicts between humans and the eastern yellowjacket, or Vespula maculifrons, usually increase in the fall. “This is because the annual colonies that these yellowjackets produced are large after ...

The four types of wasps include Eastern Yellow Jacket (Vespula maculifrons), Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus), European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula), and the most feared Bald Face Hornet ...

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.

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 ...

Picnic invaders: a Vespula wasp floating in a bottle of beer. Jenny Jandt. The beech forests in the northern South Island of New Zealand are home to the world’s highest populations of ground ...