You look up and see a yellowjacket nest hanging somewhere around your home ... They are also sometimes called sandhills hornets and common yellow hornets. You recognize them by the distinctive ...

The yearly cycle is: new queens overwinter, start new nests by themselves in spring or early summer, lay eggs which produce worker yellowjackets which take over foraging. New Queens and males are ...

While both insects will defend their nest if threatened, wasps tend to be more aggressive and use their stinger as a weapon for hunting. Yellow jackets are a type of wasp that often have black and ...

ATLANTA — Tyler Harper, Georgia Department of Agriculture Commissioner is encouraging Georgians to report embryo nests to prevent the spread of yellow-legged hornets across the state and prevent ...

The Georgia Department of Agriculture says it’s considered an ‘embryo nest,’ the initial stage of a hornet nest formation. Finding the nests early will reduce the number of hornets and ...

It’s not safe to leave the nest alone and live near a colony of yellowjackets, but it’s also not safe to handle the nest yourself. In the video above, The YellowJacket Expert shows us why you ...

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 ...