Interesting, that makes sense. It looks like they’re on homemade concrete of a sort.
I’m no fan of yellow jackets. The only time I’ve been lit up by singing and sex, was when I took a shortcut down the hill and I must’ve stepped on a nest, a lot of them are in the ground I understand. At first, I thought maybe that staying on my arm with some poison oak, but then I quickly saw one and then two and more yellow jackets coming at me. I had to finish, shutting down the hill, hanging on the trees while they were stinging me. Didn’t need to break my ankle in the process. Then I walked rapidly for maybe 100 yards swatting them for all I was worth. I have no allergies to that stuff but my head and my neck burned and ached for hours. It will get your attention.
But my main point, I just now discovered that they also are pollinators. Here’s what I found:
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While yellowjackets do not have the pollen sacks that make honey bees such efficient pollinators, yellowjackets can do incidental pollination when they travel among flowering plants. They also eat many pest insects including aphids, crickets, caterpillars, spiders and grubs. For these reasons, yellowjackets can be considered beneficial insects.
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Some of my clients have me put out yellow jacket traps, those yellow and green plastic things that yellow jackets get into real easy but can’t figure out how to get out of. Those are yellow jacket killing machines. I don’t feel good about that anymore, I wasn’t sure if they were pollinators before. Would have been easy to find out.