03/25/2026
While enjoying the park with my kiddos a Yellowjacket queen found me and was foraging. This is marking spring is actually here. This seasons generation of new queens are starting to head out to forage and find a suitable place to create a nest to begin laying her eggs.
Nest are starting to be formed now. You likely won’t be able to notice a nest site until around May/June once there population starts getting close to the hundreds. Many won’t notice nest sites until later in year when nest population could be in the thousands.
Make sure to reach out at any point you start noticing heavy activity or yellow jackets flying into ground or a crack/crevice on buildings.