Must Be The Season Of The Wasp

Janet Haworth is allergic to wasp stings, and she’ll be the first to admit the resentment she has accrued since one sting left her with a leg too swollen to walk is, well, a bit over the top. “Obsessive,” she calls it. Which means she hates them, and doesn’t mind watching them die. “I want to count them,” she said of the wasp corpses she has collected from the five bee traps placed outside the back patio of her home on Bonnell Road. “I’m a little obsessive. I haven’t yet, but I want to know how many there are.” After Haworth’s traps fill - which is often - she puts them in the freezer to kill off the remaining wasps and then bags the bodies. She has been trapping them since the beginning of August, when she realized the number of yellow jackets interrupting her outdoor chores were dramatically higher than anything she can remember/ Tom Hasslinger , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

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