>  If I had a choice, though, I would
> definitely pick honeybee stings over yellow jackets, as they're much
> less painful.

I was picking elderberries and was bothered by some mosquitoes, 
pecking away at my legs in some brush. I decided to keep picking since 
they were not much of a bother, until I parted the brush and looked 
down. They were yellow jackets. I stirred up a ground nest.

To me, bee stings are a bit more than a yellow jacket, but it might 
have been that I am just use to being stung.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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