My peaceful backyard recently became dangerous thanks to a yellow jacket nest inside the soil in one of my container plants. These aggressive stinging wasps build nests that can be completely ...

Some bugs can be tricky to tell apart, especially when you don't want to get close! Here's how to distinguish a paper wasp vs ...

It's usually best to find a way to coexist with wasps, but in our yards, a swarm of wasps is simply not something you ever ...

A yellow jacket sting marks you with a chemical signal, Ray explains. "It says ‘sting here.’” When Jeanna Raye, a dental policy analyst in Youngsville, North Carolina, mowed over a yellow jacket nest ...

Ground bees (including yellow jackets) are vital for the environment, but if they nest in your yard or walls they can become ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Set up decoy nests, clean yard debris, and seal tiny wall cracks to make your home unwelcoming to yellow jackets. Move flowering ...

Yellow jackets are honey-bee size wasp (about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long) that is black in color with bright yellow markings. (Honey bees are golden or brown.) Yellow jackets build paper nests similar to ...