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 ...

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 card to scrape it off.

What kind of wasps are in the Lowcountry and how can you avoid stings? Here's what to know about these pesky summer insects.

The 2-year-old Georgia boy was critically injured after being stung more than 150 times by yellowjackets while riding a toy ...

Yellow jacket stings are a common summertime occurrence. When a yellow jacket stings you, the stinger injects venom, causing pain, swelling, and itching at the sting site.

When a yellow jacket stings, its barb-like stinger pierces the skin and injects you with venom consisting of toxins called mastoparan and phospholipase A1 and A2. Unlike bees, yellow jackets can ...

Beckham Reed is currently fighting for his life after being stung by yellowjacket wasps more than 150 times - the toddler's ...

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

A 2-year-old boy from Georgia was left on life support and is fighting for his life after he was stung over 150 times by ...

GEORGIA — A Georgia toddler is fighting for his life after he was stung over 150 times by wasps, according to a family ...

Though less immediately painful than yellow jacket stings, an increase in mosquito bites could prove dangerous. In 2023 reporting from the Citizen Times, one Western Carolina University professor ...

A TODDLER missing a kidney is fighting for his life after being stung more than 150 times by wasps in a nightmare accident.