Beginner Gardening: Yellow Jacket Thrill, 0 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
I went out early one morning a couple years back to weed before it got to be 95* again, and rather than start out with clean clothes, threw on the day before's.....sans undies, since it was already warm. Got way out in the back and was busy pulling weeds and a YJ flew up under my shorts. Tried to pinch it and only succeeded in making it angrier, finally gave up the pinch method and used the Podster routine.... yanked the shorts down to my ankles......hoping that my commuter neighbors weren't driving by on their way to work!!

We have way too many YJs this year, and I show them no mercy. The bumble bees don't bother me at all, they can be right near where I'm working and I just say hello and let them do whatever they like, but those YJs are not that neighborly. We have the paper wasps and mud daubers, too and they always try to build their nests on the front porch so we have to be watchful when they start.

Spiders are fine....except in the house.