Yellow Jacket Stings

Yellow jackets are predatory insects that can sting when they are agitated. They are commonly black and yellow, or sometimes black and white, and are often mistaken for bees [Read More...]

The yellow jacket, or common wasp, is a sight everybody is familiar with. If only because they are regular visitors to any picnic or camping site that features sweets, [Read More...]

Yellow jackets are part of the social wasp species. The broad name yellow jacket encompass several different species of wasps including: western (Vespula pensylvanica), [Read More...]

Yellow jacket wasps survive mainly on a diet of insects and spiders. Secondarily, yellow jackets also like to feed on a range of picnic, trash can and bird feeder food. They [Read More...]

The appearance of a yellow jacket sting can vary depending on the sensitivity of the sting victim.  Generally, a sting site will swell, turn red, will be extremely painful, [Read More...]

Many times a yellow jacket will sting without warning or being provoked at all. For many, knowing how to treat a yellow jacket sting is a matter of life and death as the [Read More...]

Being stung by a bee or yellow jacket is never an enjoyable occurrence. Yellow jackets, which are somewhat smaller than other bees, are very aggressive and are more likely to [Read More...]

ANSWER: A yellow jacket does not bite it stings. Though the yellow jacket has a powerful jaw that it uses to kill its prey, when it comes to humans, they sting.  The yellow [Read More...]

ANSWER: Yellow jackets do NOT die after stinging. Unlike the honey bee that loses its stinger and dies after stinging, the same yellow jacket can sting multiple times. How Do [Read More...]