Honey bees

Honey bees

Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honey bees and some other bees. Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants (floral nectar) or from secretions of other insects (such as honeydew), by regurgitation, enzymatic activity, and water evaporation.

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are high on the menu of insects on which yellowjackets feed; besides killing and eating individual bees, yellowjackets also raid hives

hives

The bees use the cells to store food (honey and pollen) and to house the brood (eggs, larvae, and pupae). Beehives serve several purposes: production of honey, pollination of nearby crops, housing supply bees for apitherapy treatment, and to try to mitigate the effects of colony collapse disorder.

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for larvae, pollen, and honey.

Will yellow jackets hurt honey bees?

Yellow jackets prey on other insects as sources of protein. If they attack a beehive, they'll kill the worker bees and eat the brood. They'll also destroy and eat the honeycomb. A yellow jacket raid might even kill the honey bee queen.

Will yellow jacket traps trap honey bees?

Honeybees and bumblebees feed on pollen and nectar, and will therefore avoid yellowjacket traps. Many commercially available yellowjacket traps use heptyl butyrate as bait, which bees are not attracted to.