Western Yellow Jackets

Bees & Wasps, Yellow Jackets

In the fall when at its peak, a western yellow jacket colony can contain thousands of insects.  In the winter worker yellow jackets die while queens hibernate.  Queens lay eggs and establish new colonies in the spring. The first generation to mature are the new...

Care for Insect Stings and Bites

Bees & Wasps, Yellow Jackets

Most insect bite and sting reactions are mild, causing redness, itching, stinging, minor swelling, and major annoyance. Rarely, insect bites and stings, such as from a bee, a wasp, a hornet, a fire ant, black widow spider, or a scorpion, can result in severe...

Some Wasps are party animals!

Bees & Wasps, Yellow Jackets

A few of the species of wasps in California, and there are a lot of them, live a social life.  They are referred to as social wasps, and they are predators and or scavengers.  These wasps provide a great benefit in that they kill large numbers of plant-eating insects...

Summer means the return of Yellow jackets and Wasps

Bees & Wasps, Yellow Jackets

Summer is heating up in Sacramento and with that comes an increase in wasp and yellow jacket activity.  And with an increase in yellow jacket activity, comes and increase in wasp stings and yellowjacket stings. In most cases, a single yellow jacket or wasp sting does...

Yellowjacket and Wasp stings

Bees & Wasps, Yellow Jackets

In most cases, a single yellowjacket or wasp sting does not cause serious injury. However, in some cases people have allergic reactions that can be life-threatening—even when previous stings caused no reaction. The risk of a severe reaction increases with multiple...

Wasps & Yellowjackets in Sacramento

Bees & Wasps, Yellow Jackets

There are two types of “social wasps” in our Sacramento pest control region: yellowjackets and paper wasps. Of the two, yellowjackets are more aggressive and dangerous to humans. Yellowjackets will attack if their nest is threatened or, less frequently, if someone...