While yellow jackets are active throughout the summer in Michigan, fall is often when they become the most annoying as they pester you for your apple, or cinnamon and sugar doughnut at the farmer's ...

Set up decoy nests, clean yard debris, and seal tiny wall cracks to make your home unwelcoming to yellow jackets. Move flowering plants away from living areas and clean up food and drink spills.

Yellow jackets are honey-bee size wasp (about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long) that is black in color with bright yellow markings. (Honey bees are golden or brown.) Yellow jackets build paper nests similar to ...

Wasps are pollinators in the garden, but not insects you want to encounter around your home, yard, or patio—they are more aggressive than bees, and you don't want to get stung while lounging outside.