Before the 1990s this native yellow jacket was the type most widespread in California, but an introduced German yellow jacket that nests around houses and yards is giving these insects an ...

German yellow jackets have venom which is primarily dangerous to only those people who are allergic or who are stung many times. Colonies can contain up to 10,000 of the pests, and they can send ...

German yellow jackets are a species of wasp found in the Northern ... Colonies can contain up to 10,000 insects and they can instantly send signals to mobilise the entire nest to attack an ...

The yellow jacket nest is made from multilayered combs with a paper shell surrounding it. Eastern and southern yellow jackets build their nests in underground cavities, but German yellow jackets ...

Rick Vetter is desperately searching for yellow jackets. He hunts Southern California’s foothills and flatlands, its urban and suburban neighborhoods. He scours theme parks, schools and zoos. At ...

Vernard Lewis, a Cooperative Extension Specialist, Division of Organisms with UC Berkeley investigates a yellow jacket nest found on the grounds of the UC Berkeley Field Station in Richmond, Calif ...

But in 1975, beginning in Ohio, the unintentionally introduced German yellow jacket began its dominant flight across the East. It differs from our native yellow jackets in building more nests ...

Dear readers, I stand corrected. Apparently the winged warriors I wrote about two weeks ago are not bees; they’re yellow jackets. At least that’s what several people have told me, based on the ...

The German yellow jacket (Vespula germanica) The Western yellow jacket ... If you spot an underground nest, get insecticides meant for yellow jackets from a hardware store and apply them.