Re: YELLOW JACKETS and raccoons

In a message dated 10/5/00 3:04:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
maridube@teleport.com writes:

<<  I hope you aren't allergic to the stings!  I had a big papery
 wasp hive/nest up about 30 ft in a Douglas Fir tree and the wasps were
 having a heyday in my garden.  I was watching the nest with binoculars.  One
 day it was in pieces at the bottom of the tree.  It seems the local raccoons
 took care of it >>

Not allergic so far, although it's been three days and the stings still itch. 
 Most of the swelling has gone done.  Years ago I had a bed that was edged in 
railroad ties (real railroad ties, not landscape timbers).  They deteriorated 
over the years and one year I noticed a yellowjacket nest in one of 
them--they streamed in and out all day long.  One morning the tie was torn to 
shreds--could only have been raccoons.  Only favor they ever did me.
Bill Lee

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