Get Rid of Yellow Jackets

Queen yellow jackets hibernate through the winter before building a new nest in the spring. She creates cellulose or paper cells to hatch eggs in. Later in the season, she leaves to mate and return to hibernate again.

Yellow jacket stings can be very painful, but are not fatal unless a person has a rare, severe allergic reaction. They can be aggressive, especially when defending their colony and are capable of stinging multiple times

Yellow jacket nests house thousands of individual cellulose cells in which eggs are contained. Average nests can hold anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 of these cells and house 1,000 to 4,000 workers.

Yellow jacket nests are most commonly built in the ground but can also be found in trees or under porches. Nests are sometimes encountered in active and abandoned cars if it is able to enter and find a suitable spot.

Yellow jacket traps contain bait or sugars that lure them inside and have a feature that prevents them from escaping once inside. These traps can be found at gardening and hardware stores or made from household items.

Yellow jackets and bees share a similar black and yellow coloring, but are very different. Bees are round and fuzzy and reside in wax beehives. Yellow jackets are more thin and smooth, while building underground nests.

Wasps, or western yellow jackets are located in the western part of the United States. They have a painful sting and are capable of stinging multiple times. They feed on garbage, carrion, and dead insects.

A yellow jackets lifecycle starts in the spring when the queen builds a nest and lays eggs. The first eggs hatch and the workers begin expanding. Average numbers can reach 1,000 to 4,000 before dying off in the winter.

Yellow jackets are black and yellow, can be aggressive, and sting repeatedly. They eat insects, garbage, meat, and sugary substances. Nests are usually underground and run by a queen. Only inseminated females survive winter.