Yellow jacket on nest comb

Yellow jacket on nest comb 3, a photo by alumroot on Flickr.

I had to get some yellow jackets to move along as they found a spot right in an area where we needed to be. I think these were native yellow jackets so I would not have bothered them, but they posed a bit of a danger to us. I have been stung a few time this summer and more did not appeal to me. I dug them out on a cool night and it offered me the opportunity to get a few shots of the combs that make up the nest.