Does a yellow jacket have a nest in the ground?

Question

does a yellow jacket make there nest in the ground or do they steel another insects nest ?????????????

Answer 1

Yessiree. Be careful this time of year.  They make their own.  

Answer 2

Yep they make an underground nest,  but they'll use any underground soil cavity such as a mouse burrow. They'll also make a paper nest like paper wasps.

Answer 3

My father had the misfortune of plowing into an underground yellow jacket nest.  Luckily the family truck was nearby so we could escape the very upset hornets.  It took about a half an hour for the yellow jackets to calm down.

Yellow jackets and other hornets play a role in insect control.  They capture caterpillars to feed to the developing hornet larvae.