According to an online fundraiser, the toddler was on his electric toy vehicle when he hit a yellow jacket nest and was ...

Little Beckham Reed — who was born with just one kidney — was swarmed by the wasps when he bumped into a nest while riding in ...

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CORNISH: Nests like the ones in the Barrons' smokehouse can be home to as many as 15,000 yellow jackets, possibly even more. And it's not the only super nest in the state. CHARLES RAY: There's at ...

Researchers have found massive, perennial yellow jacket nests in Baldwin, Bullock, Chilton, Clay, Coffee, Dallas, Marion, Montgomery, Shelby and Talladega counties.

A yellow jacket nest found in the roof of a house in Summerville. This nest is 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide and 15 inches thick. Provided ...

Yellow jacket wasps feed their young liquefied insects, with caterpillars, flies and spiders comprising the largest food groups during most of the summer. The effect: Adios, garden pests!

Charles Ray, an Extension entomologist and research fellow at Auburn University, said most yellow jacket nests are located in the ground, or in small cavities and have at most 4,000 to 5,000 workers.

This yellow jacket nest took up the interior of a 1957 Chevy. (Image credit: Charles Ray) The largest nest he's laid eyes on took up the interior of a 1957 Chevy, Ray said.

According to an online fundraiser, the toddler was on his electric toy vehicle when he hit a yellow jacket nest and was ...