Do yellow-jackets have any natural predators?

Question

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It's amazing that you ask. Yesterday as I was walking to the mailbox I saw a hornet attacking a yellow-jacket. After stinging the yellow-jacket to death the hornet flew off with the carcass.

My grandmother used to dribble honey around the entrance to a yellow-jacket nest in the evening and by morning a coon would have come and torn the nest apart and eaten the larvae.

Answer 2

I've seen wasps attack a yellow jacket. I know they get caught in spider webs also.

Answer 3

I have seen a spider catch one in its web and wrap it up and eat it.

Answer 4

Hornets and spiders will kill adult yellow jackets occasionally so will other types of wasps.   Really though they have no actual natural predators, nothing that hunts them down specificially in other words.

Answer 5

Yes.  Me and my husband.

Answer 6

Skunks are known to dig up various kinds of bee nests and eat the bees.  Perhaps that would include yellow-jackets.  I hope so.  I hate yellow-jackets so much.