This hover fly, also known as a syrphid fly, can be found in many states including Indiana. Although they look somewhat like a sweat bee or the larger yellow jacket wasp, these flies do not sting.

Yellow jackets and paper wasps are incredibly similar wasps, and it’s difficult for the average person to tell them apart. They’re both yellow and black with thin bodies, slender wings, and similar ...

Q: Last fall, we discovered two or three yellow jackets a day coming into the primary bedroom of our Maryland home around the window frames. Outside, we saw the wasps flying in and out of a corner ...

If you've recently noticed an uptick in activity from insects of a stinging variety—mainly yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps—you're not alone.

Little Beckham Reed — who was born with just one kidney — was swarmed by the wasps when he bumped into a nest while riding in a toy car with his cousins in Georgia.

Yellowjacket summer surge: Why you're seeing more wasps this season While yellowjackets and other wasps typically come around this time of year, entomologists say they've been seeing more reports ...

Fall is the season when flying insects like hornets and yellow jackets are most aggressive -- especially when humans trek on or near their turf.

Ask the Master Gardener: Yellow jackets, wasps are not important pollinators When wasp nests are found close to where people are active, the nests should be eliminated to minimize the risk of stings.

As a rule, bees generally don’t want to sting you, and they only sting to defend their nests. Yellow jackets are a little more likely to do that.” So why are the yellow jackets so upset right now?