Vicious, Aggressive, Predatory Yellowjacket Species Arrives Across CT, New England

While mosquitoes and other insects including bees and wasps disappear after summer, this vicious, aggressive yellowjacket species is starting to dangerously buzz around New England.

According to the Medicine Net website, this latest yellowjacket species hails from Central America area are immensely more aggressive toward us humans without provocation and it's going to be bad this fall according to the News Break App.

They have now pushed further up into New England, and now picked up here in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southern Massachusetts. So, they’re going to continue to go north. Experts say the southern yellowjacket now accounts for up to 10 percent of the yellowjacket population in Connecticut.

Eggs laid in the spring through summer hatch and even more workers taking care of the queen emerge for fall. However, without nectar and insects to feed on they turn to us humans and the sugar in us.

Yellowjackets are distant relatives of hornets, bees, and wasps often compared most closely as a wasp species. They have the yellow and black markings like honeybees but are bigger and brutal because they don't just sting when they attack us, they also bite.

Also, when they sting they don't leave the stinger behind and can keep on harassing us  according to the News Break app.

They’re biting and stinging just increases the pain. They just come screaming out at you. Very dangerous. Lethal to people who are allergic. The southern yellowjackets are absolutely vicious. They’re bigger and the nests are 10 times bigger than this.

These nests they build underground can get up to nine feet long. Yellowjackets are extremely protective of their nest and since they aren't afraid of humans at all according to News Break, a simple vibration that disturbs the yellowjackets' nest will bring them out in swarms to attack.

If you get stung or bitten by a yellowjacket, immediately put mud or toothpaste to pull out the moisture and venom as well as reduce tension.