Answer: Yellow jackets are not bees, but are small yellow and black wasps up to an inch long. They nest in the ground, in walls, under decks and in timber-retaining walls.

René Eisenbart/The OregonianFrom top to bottom: mud dauber wasp, yellow jacket and honeybee. Bees are important pollinators -- good guys among garden insects. So how can you tell if the buzzing ...

By mid- to late-summer and fall, yellow jacket populations are at their height. “As their number build up, they gorge ...

As a curator for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Bees and Wasps of Texas Project on iNaturalist.org, Paul interacts with folks submitting pictures for identification. Some are very ...

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 ...

Yellow jackets are not bees of any kind! Sean in Alexandria, ... Sean — yellow jackets are in the wasp and hornet family and are not bees of any kind. What’s the difference?

Who is in control of your back yard - you or the wasps? They might disagree what you. Learn how to control wasp and yellowjacket populations so you can enjoy nature and be safe this summer.

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

News; Home and garden; Gardening: Yellow jackets, hornets, wasps hunting for sugar now Thu., Aug. 16, 2018 The insect traps were filling up with yellow jackets at Liberty Lake Campground on Friday ...

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 ...