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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Yellow jackets are generally more aggressive than bees, and they are able to sting people multiple times. When the insects sense danger, they release pheromones that signal other yellow jackets to ...

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 ...

On the other hand, epinephrine injections, more commonly known as EpiPens are used for people who do have severe allergic reactions to stings from bees, wasps or in this case yellow jackets.