[Dailydrool] Yellow Jackets

[Pam McQuade]

<<The exterminator said they wear running shoes and advise the home owner 
not to come out and watch unless you want to run too!>>

My husband has a somewhat funny story about a yellow-jacket attack. It seems 
that Terminix gave its exterminators a wasp freeze product that will kill 
the critters, if an exterminator is attacked. One day Drew and his cohort in 
killing pests went to home that had a wood pile directly next to the house 
(worst place in the world for a wood pile, since bugs love them). His cohort 
moved some of the wood, and out flooded the yellow jackets. The man ran to 
the car, grabbed the freeze stuff, and couldn't get the can to work. He 
ended up trying to beat the critters to death with it.

I do not recommend this as a way to avoid being stung, since this fellow was 
pretty badly harmed. But if there is some of the wasp freeze product out 
there, it might be a better solution than running. I can almost guarantee 
that the bugs are faster than you will be.
Pam, food slave to the Dashing Bassets, who love to snap at anything that 
flies