The summer’s over, which means you can stop stressing about all those biting insects, right? Actually, as my poor puppy discovered today, yellow jackets and a few other varieties of wasps are extra nasty and pushy in late August and September because they have grown from a single female wasp to a massive colony of stinging creatures. On top of all the early hatching wasps that have been busy foraging all summer, there are new male and female wasps hatching out so they can create next year’s yellow jacket invasion.
Since these wasps tend to build their nests around the house …read more