[mware]

i don't know what kind of species of yellow jackets we have in our area, (South Jersey) For all I know they may be wasps but they are very large about two inches in length and the marking of a yellow jacket.

Last summer while remodeling my house the construction worker stirred them up from somewhere.

Two of the guys got stung and both wound up in the hospital.

My neighbor about 5 houses down got stung this summer and the hospital told him he had about 2 minutes left to live before his heart swelled up so large that it would burst. He never had an allergy to bee stings before and has made a full recovery. He now carries around that injection needle that gives him a grace period of about 10 minutes to reach the hospital

[MamaTexan]

For all I know they may be wasps but they are very large about two inches in length and the marking of a yellow jacket.

We've been seeing some kind of yellow jacket / red wasp looking hybrid around here for the last several years.

These things are about 2 inches long and red with the stripe pattern of a yellow jacket. They do NOT have a typical sting of either one, but seem to have a more potent variety of poison.

When someone gets stung, it makes a huge welt that, over time, becomes a black spot, then a hole in the skin.

We make a poultice of moistened tobacco and ice to take away some of the painfulness of the sting.

[Youngblood]

i don't know what kind of species of yellow jackets we have in our area, (South Jersey) For all I know they may be wasps but they are very large about two inches in length and the marking of a yellow jacket.

Yellow jackets are wasps!