Two summers ago a huge hatch of wasps descended on Fairbanks. University of Alaska Fairbanks entomologist Derek Sikes estimated there were about 10 times more yellow jackets that year than normal. Inevitably they bumped into people. School events were canceled because too many kids were getting stung. For most victims, the wasp stings were merely painful, but for others they were
Two summers ago a huge hatch of wasps descended on Fairbanks. University of Alaska Fairbanks entomologist Derek Sikes estimated there were about 10 times more yellow jackets that year than normal. Inevitably they bumped into people. School events were canceled because too many kids were getting stung.
Two Alaska researchers have determined, and reported this month in the Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin, that insect stings in Alaska have been increasing steadily this decade. And they're occurring farther north.
On May 24, the National WASP World War II Museum will host its fourth annual homecoming with an open house and barbeque dinner honoring the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, of World War II. The museum is located off Interstate 20 near Avenger Field in Sweetwater.
Surgeons began the fight last night to save Danny Cipriani's dazzling rugby career from being destroyed by a gruesome ankle injury. England's 21-year-old fly half prodigy lay in a London hospital after being carried out of Wasps' Premiership play-off semi-final against Bath wearing an oxygen mask.
A Sting from a jack spaniard proved fatal for a Wallerfiled man, as he promptly fell off a mango tree he had scaled in the area. Krishna Singh, 52, climbed the tree at Block Three, Wallerfield, at around 10.30 a.m. yesterday morning, when he was stung by the wasp and fell off the tree.
This week Nate Sloan spoke to Julie Klausner about her new soap opera spoof "Wasp Cove," which begins May 19 at Comix. If you need any more convincing about how funny a lady Klausner and her pals can be, check out this clip of "Welcome to Our House."
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