Your first line of defense against ground wasps should be natural remedies. Diatomaceous earth (DE) is a natural, powdery ...

Yellow jackets are heavy-bodied, with black and yellow or white markings and live in gray, papery nests, which are mainly located below ground but some are suspended above, he said.

Yellow jackets tend to nest in more secluded places such as brush piles, ground cover beds, rotted logs, cracks or holes in the ground or pavement, under steps or porches on a house, house walls ...

Nests are easiest to locate on warm summer mornings or evenings by carefully scanning the landscape for insects shooting up out of the ground. After you have located yellow jacket nests, decide ...

Yellow jackets tend to nest in more secluded places like brush piles, ground cover beds, rotted logs, cracks or holes in the ground or pavement, under steps or porches on a house, in house walls ...

However, if the nest is in a high-traffic area, like near an entryway, you will probably need to have it removed. As we saw in the video, yellowjackets tend to get aggressive fast when people get ...

Charles Ray, an Extension entomologist and research fellow at Auburn University, said most yellow jacket nests are located in the ground, or in small cavities and have at most 4,000 to 5,000 workers.

CORNISH: Nests like the ones in the Barrons' smokehouse can be home to as many as 15,000 yellow jackets, possibly even more. And it's not the only super nest in the state. CHARLES RAY: There's at ...

Unlike bees, which create hives that produce honey, yellow jackets live in nests, which can be found in secluded areas or on the ground. Bee stingers have barbs, so they stay in the skin, then ...

Using a thermal imaging camera and some other tools, he pinpointed the exact spot in the roof the yellow jackets were, and came to learn the nest was 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide and 15 inches thick ...

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 ...