Credit: Nick Ta / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 If you’ve ever been chased off your patio with a plate or a glass of iced tea in hand, you already know yellow jackets aren’t your average backyard visitors.

My peaceful backyard recently became dangerous thanks to a yellow jacket nest inside the soil in one of my container plants. These aggressive stinging wasps build nests that can be completely ...

Yellow jackets “go after other insects, you know, maybe problematic insects or sometimes just other native insects,” Serrano says. They can be good to have around your garden, attacking the bugs that ...

The warmer months mean more time outdoors with sunshine, nice weather... and yellow jackets. If you live in an area where these annoying bugs thrive in the summer, then you know how tricky it can be ...

Yellow jackets are quite a bit more aggressive than your average wasp—they're capable of stinging multiple times, so they aren't a pest you want circling your home, yard, or patio. As they forage for ...