Yellow Jacket Scavenger

I spied this Yellow Jacket Wasp enjoying a piece of honeybee.  The yellow jacket likes sweet treats but they are meat eaters.  These wasps can be a plague to beekeepers and often harass hives.  They are usually not a real threat to the colony unless it is weak and doesn't contain enough worker guards to keep them out of the hive.

Fall pests

Yellow jackets and other wasps, as well as, spiders can become bothersome pests for our hives during the fall.  Strong hives will fight them off.