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Article: TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE...STUNG THE STING OF THE PESKY CRITTERS FOILS A FESTIVAL

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September 11, 1998
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CHART Yellow jacket pictured here. (MARK E. THURMAN/POST-TRIBUNE)

THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.

You say you don't want to get stung again by a bee at one of this weekend's fall festivals. You're taking precautions against the pernicious yellow jacket this Saturday. Clothing will be loose-fitting and light-colored. There will be no wearing of cologne or other perfumed products.

And no hanging out near garbage cans.

You're safe, right?

Consider these lines from H.E. Evans and M.J. West Eberhard's "The Wasps," a 265-page tome published by the University of Michigan Press:

Social wasps (yellow jackets) are "innocuous, preoccupied creatures, about as likely ...

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