Yellow jackets — properly known as Vespula, Dolichovespula, or Paravespula — are thin wasps with black and yellow coloring and long dark wings. Here you can learn how to treat their stings and ...

Remove the stinger. Although yellow jackets don’t normally leave a stinger, sometimes they do. The stinger looks like a tiny black dot in the area of the sting. Use your fingernail or a credit ...

Since yellow jackets like foraging in landfills, they may carry harmful bacteria (germs) on their stingers. Getting stung by a contaminated yellow jacket stinger can cause infections or blood ...

Yellow jackets sting when threatened, and it can be painful or cause an allergic reaction. There are other things people should be aware of if they come across a yellow jacket, too. As well as ...

And there are many next rounds: A colony of hornets or yellow jackets may grow to 1,000 workers, says entomologist Donald Lewis of Iowa State University —although you wouldn’t know it for most ...