How to tell the difference between yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps. All three species are under the category of social wasps that produce colonies each year with only the malted ...

Yellow jacket wasps feed their young liquefied insects, with caterpillars, flies and spiders comprising the largest food groups during most of the summer. The effect: Adios, garden pests!

Yellow jackets: Fall’s fearsome and feisty wasps that can sting repeatedly Yellow jackets are angry, aggressive and nasty in fall. And they have a good reason for their mean behavior.

Your first line of defense against ground wasps should be natural remedies. Diatomaceous earth (DE) is a natural, powdery substance that kills ground wasps and other insects. Apply DE in and around ...

I used to think of hornets and yellow jackets as the jerks of the animal kingdom. These stinging, flying wasps ruin countless picnics with their aggressive appetite for candy, fruit, and soda ...

Gardening: Yellow jackets, hornets, wasps hunting for sugar now Thu., Aug. 16, 2018 The insect traps were filling up with yellow jackets at Liberty Lake Campground on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013.

Both insects are yellow with black markings, but yellow jackets are a brighter, shinier yellow. They are hairless and have that famously distinctive thin, wasp-like waist. Honeybees are fatter ...

There are two topics of concern this week. The first is the proliferation of yellow jackets and wasps, and the second is the still-increasing number of beetle-killed spruce trees.

while yellow jackets and other wasps can be a nuisance at outdoor events or even on your walk by swarming or stinging, you bog says they do bring many benefits to local ecosystems along the way.

Unlike yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps, bees do not die in the winter, and typically stay alive by staying inside their hive and feeding on honey created throughout the year.