Paper wasps are larger than yellow jackets. Paper wasps have long, slender bodies, while yellow jackets are smaller and ...

Yellowjackets are scouting for areas to create their nest. Their colony population will increase up until the winter where all but one queen wasp will die. Paper wasps create their nest out of a ...

Unlike yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps, bees do not die in the winter, and typically stay alive by staying inside their hive and feeding on honey created throughout the year.

Unlike yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps, bees do not die in the winter, and typically stay alive by staying inside their hive and feeding on honey created throughout the year.

Yellow jackets seem to be the biggest problem right now but hornets and paper wasps aren’t far behind. Yellow jackets are mostly black with distinctive yellow stripes on their abdomens.

Paper wasps look a lot like yellow jackets, but they are much more mellow and can easily coexist with humans, provided humans behave themselves.

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 ...

Bald-faced hornets are often mistaken as true hornets, but in fact they are a type of yellow jacket. Yellow jackets and paper wasps are social insects where the queen dominates the colony.

Bender said western yellow jackets are mostly to blame, but many of the nests that vector control officials removed were from paper wasps. The species, which is native to Europe, North Africa and ...

Yellow jacket wasps feed their young liquefied insects, with caterpillars, flies and spiders comprising the largest food groups during most of the summer. The effect: Adios, garden pests!