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I was clearing undergrowth from my back yard again this morning – doing a little every day – and hit a yellow jacket hive/hole/something. At first, they looked like sweat bees and I was trying to decide how to photograph them best (nature photography as a hobby) … then a sting … and another and 10+ of them were on me.

Running like a little girl back to the deck … I found more stuck to my shirt and still stinging. Take off the shirt and find 5 stingers stuck all around it. Three on my work gloves … stinging, but not getting through the fabric.

I feel stings on my calves and behind the knee, but don’t see anything down there. Then another on my thigh. Still don’t see it. Pull off the shorts (Go UT!) quickly and find another stuck inside them, still stinging at the cloth. My sandals make good YJ killers.

By now, there are a few pimples where they stung me good and the venom is still a dull ache. Thankfully, I’m not allergic to bees, wasps or yellow jackets, but it still hurts. Most of the stings aren’t showing any signs and even the big pimples are going down now.

Life gets in the way of living sometimes.

Ok, so where’s my bug killer?