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Focuses on professor Brian Barnes' efforts to explore the mysterious worlds of Alaska's hibernators. Winter secrets of wood frogs, yellow jackets, Arctic ground squirrels and black bears; Ability of the wood frogs to tolerate being frozen solid; Supercooling ability of yellow jackets; Torpid state of Arctic ground squirrels.

Discusses the competition among yellow jacket queen wasps found in southeastern United States. Annual colony cycle of yellow jackets; Types of yellow jackets; Queen wasps' fight for a nest and colony; Social parasitism of yellow jackets; Queen wasps' nest-site searching behavior.

A firefighter almost died from a reaction to multiple wasp stings while working on the September 1994 Idaho City Complex. Another firefighter with a known allergy, was swarmed by yellow jackets and suffered little more than discomfort and 1 day lost from the fire line. Fire camp medical unit records show more treatment given for stings than any other fire-related injury except sore feet. Most stings give fire personnel minor discomfort. But research by the American Academy of Allergies and Immunology shows more than 2 million people in the United States are highly reactive to wasp and bee stings and that at least 50 people will die each year from anaphylactic shock resulting from a sting.

Describes pest behavior during the winter season in the U.S. House infestation by subterranean termites; Emergence of yellowjacket queens from their overwintering sites; Outbreaks of clover mites on residential turfgrass; Increased tick activity associated with mild winters. INSET: Bugs and beetles.

Discusses how yellowjackets were captured in eastern United States' Delaware Valley. Effectiveness of Cooper Pest Control's state-of-the-art trapping techniques for yellowjackets; Cost of the yellowjacket programs; Design of the trap; Refinement of the program; Yellowjackets as beneficial organisms. INSET: Yellowjacket fact sheet.

Reports on the solution provided by Cooper Pest Control Inc. to the German yellow jacket infestation in Waterfront Park, Trenton, New Jersey. Three-phase program; Strategic trap placement; Evaluation of the result of the control program.

Presents an update on organic gardening in the U.S. as of September/October 2003. Suggestion in planting spinach; Varieties of apples; Ways to trap yellow jackets.

Offers advice on how to eliminate yellow jackets in a flower garden. Putting a half full water in a crockery jug; Placing a crockery jug beside the hole where the yellow jackets entered the ground; Beating the ground to arouse the colony; Drowning of wasps into the jug.

Focuses on the nests built by yellow jacket wasps in a laboratory in Ithaca, New York. Maintenance of large colonies of the insect; Collection of yellowjacket venom to desensitize persons allergic to the wasp's sting.

Provides information on pest control in the United States. Application of pesticide to yellowjackets; Need of wearing protective clothing in removing European hornet; Residual spraying of carpenter bees in the entrance of the hole.

Reports on the fly and yellowjacket control program of Sea World in Aurora, Ohio. Capability of a fly control program to reduce yellowjacket population because yellowjackets feed on flies; Use of sanitation, mechanical, chemical and biological techniques; Description of various control techniques used.

Presents information related to pest management in the U.S. Options in killing the larvae of Indianmeal moths; Suggestions in eliminating yellow jackets attracted to food; Advice in getting rid of cigarette beetles aside from fumigation.

Presents a question and answer advisory on pest control in the United States. Tips on eliminating yellow jacket insects; Recommendations on the effective extermination of molds; Suitable standards for probing wood destroying insects.