Several people sent me kudos for the last two issues of APIS..I appreciate
any kind of feedback....thanks a bunch....
 
My aunt in Minnesota says its been the coolest spring and summer on
record in the area...she says there's talk that it was caused by
the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines...could this be the
cause of the drop in yellow jacket populations across the midwest and
east?  A pest control operator in south Florida is looking for information
on how to exterminate a yellow jacket nest that is the size of a
Volkswagen!  He claims some of its paper covering is as hard a concrete;
the only way to get to it is to drill a hole with a jackhammer then pump
it full of pesticide--he is afraid of the all the "swarmers" that will
emerge when he starts his hammer--this is no joke apparently a pickup
truck ran into the nest by accident and got banged up...any ideas?