How many yellow jackets and hornets does it take to make a pound?
I estimate it takes 6,960 yellow jackets and 4,640 white-faced hornets to make a pound. I base this on the calculation that it takes 15 yellow jackets to make up a gram. There are 464 grams in a pound. I’d say it takes 10 white-faced hornets to make a gram. It probably takes 8-10 average size yellow jacket nests to make a pound here in Connecticut. Once in a while we have come across a nest that has given us half a pound but that is very rare. Yellow jacket nests do not get very large in Connecticut. On average it will take 5-6 white-faced hornet nests to make up a pound. The really big ones can yield up to half a pound.
