Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. If you have friends who mow large areas, you know how dangerous underground yellow jacket nests can be to those persons. Yellow jackets, like most other social insects, overwinter as fertilized queens who begin the process of constructing a paper nests from scratch as spring arrives. The adults feed on nectar and fruit (one reason people often plant orchards away from their houses) but feed the young with partially