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flashlight, I returned to the edge of the woods and retrieved my clipboard with its precious information. All the members of the colony, which may number 15,000, were in the nest. They are inactive at night.
I left the yellow jacket colony near the bluebird nest box alone, reasoning they would attack any predator — snake, raccoon, chipmunk, or even a jay or grackle — in search of a meal of bluebird eggs or young. The yellow jackets must have been on guard for the nest box produced five healthy young bluebirds.
Yellow jackets eat fruits and animal matter of all kinds. Recently I was preparing to grill steaks outside. I place the pan holding the steaks on a table, while I prepared the grill and arranged the coals.
Immediately a worker landed on the meat and began nibbling. When I brushed her away with my hand she swung back and forth angrily before flying off. For a moment I experienced that tingling sensation of fear these insects invariably give me.
During the intense spell of very hot weather in August, Lee Trott and I were in Front Royal. Lee parked in front of a shop and suggested that, since it was so hot, I remain in the closed car with air conditioning running while she went inside. Suddenly a yellow jacket landed on the windshield; under
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