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Doug Clark: The Sting

There will be a class on how to control those pesky yellow jackets Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. at University of Idaho Kootenai County Extension Office, 1000 W. Hubbard, Room 142. (File/ / The Spokesman-Review)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
There will be a class on how to control those pesky yellow jackets Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. at University of Idaho Kootenai County Extension Office, 1000 W. Hubbard, Room 142. (File/ / The Spokesman-Review)
There will be a class on how to control those pesky yellow jackets Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. at University of Idaho Kootenai County Extension Office, 1000 W. Hubbard, Room 142. (File/ / The Spokesman-Review)

Latest in a seemingly never-ending series on nature’s attempt to murder me.

As I write these words I am trying to ignore a red, itchy welt on my left wrist.

Itchy tells only part of the story. There is burning, too, as if some fiend were intermittently jabbing the center of the welt with the business end of a flame-heated needle.

This has been driving me crazy since the other night, when I was attacked while sitting on my deck by the al-Qaida of the insect world …

The yellow jacket. Doug Clark, SR.

Have yellow jackets or bees got you yet this season?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog