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Here in lovely, Medina, Ohio—home to A.I. Root Candle Company (and other assorted bee-related businesses)—fall is bee season. Not the good bees—those honeybees and bumble bees—but their meaner, nastier cousin, the yellow jacket.
Come September, these buggers get a bit testy. They know the end is near and they become short-tempered, on the prowl for the unsuspecting kids and adults who dare to come too close to their in-ground lairs.
After multiple years of treating kid’s yellow jacket bites, I finally learned to spend the last couple of weeks of August ferreting out their nests and eliminating them.