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 ...

Remove wasp nests by trying natural remedies after sundown when the wasps are inactive. These methods also work to eliminate ...

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 ...

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 ...

What kind of wasps are in the Lowcountry and how can you avoid stings? Here’s what to know about these pesky summer insects.

Yellowjackets usually nest underground and are not visible like EPW nests. The yellow-traps and lures which work well for yellowjackets will not work for European paper wasps, hornets or other bees.

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 ...

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!

Encounters with things that sting are a part of living in the Inland Northwest. The searing pain of a wasp attack can make grown-ups scream, jump about and pull clothes off while swatting aimlessly.