Jared, being a wonderful and dutiful husband, went out to mow the lawn today. After about 30 minutes of work, he came running in the house, stomping and swatting. Apparently, he ran over a nest of yellow jackets in the front lawn. They started to attack him -- we learned through some research that they consider the lawn mower to be a threatening insect.Jared only got stung twice, but they were miserable. The bugs were able to sting him through his clothes!
We waited a bit and then went outside to see where the nest was -- it was like that scene in Winnie-the-Pooh where the bees go shooting out of the hive. The yellow jackets were shooting out of their nest in anger. Jared didn't go back to that part of the yard until after sunset when the bugs calm down.We went and got some spray to shoot down into the nest that night. Jared dug the nest up a couple of days later -- look how big it was!
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Lovely. Now I'm gonna have nightmares of yellow jackets mauling my children while they frollick merrily in our grass.
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