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 ...

Paper wasps are around 1-inch long with long legs and can range in color, from reddish-orange to black, sometimes with yellow highlights. Their nests are typically umbrella-shaped and have fewer ...

Yellow jackets seem to be the biggest problem right now but hornets and paper wasps aren’t far behind. Yellow jackets are mostly black with distinctive yellow stripes on their abdomens.

Paper wasps look a lot like yellow jackets, but they are much more mellow and can easily coexist with humans, provided humans behave themselves. Yellow jackets most often build nests in more ...

Yellowjackets are scouting for areas to create their nest. Their colony population will increase up until the winter where all but one queen wasp will die. Paper wasps create their nest out of a ...

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!

Unlike the familiar yellow jacket and bald-faced hornet-wasps that build large, elaborate, enclosed paper nests shaped like large footballs or spheres-the Polistes fashions a much smaller and ...

To get rid of yellow jacket and paper wasp nests it is best to treat them late in the evening or early in the morning when they are less active. If after a day you still see them flying around, ...

It's nesting season for aggressive agitators like wasps and yellow jackets, mosquito squad shares what happens when you need to neutralize a nest. Skip to content NOWCAST KETV NewsWatch 7 First ...

Yellow jackets and paper wasps With this information in mind, let us discuss the life history strategies of two types of social wasps. Paper wasps and yellow jackets are found throughout our region.