YELLOWJACKETS FAVOR SUMAC SCHOOL LUNCH.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer AGOURA HILLS - Children at Sumac sumac or sumach (sh  `măk, s Elementary and neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. schools have taken to eating their lunch indoors to escape the persistent buzzing and stingers Stingers (1998 - 2004) was an Australian TV police drama series. It is also aired in 65 countries, including Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Iran, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the UK. of bothersome yellowjackets. School officials say there appears to be little that can be done about the insects, aside from cleaning up lunch areas immediately after the students eat and keeping kids indoors when the problem gets too bad. ``Exterminators put traps out, but they're marginally effective,'' said Caroline Broomand, assistant principal at Sumac. ``The exterminators are here all the time. But kids do get stung.'' Staffers at Willow Elementary said yellowjackets - wasps or hornets rather than less-threatening bees - are a problem every year at the Agoura Hills campus, although this fall has been relatively calm. ``We go through this every year, but we haven't had a lot of stings this year,'' said Sandy Troncatty, an office worker. ``When it gets really bad, (the yellowjackets) are even out on the playground.'' The Ventura County Agricultural Commissioner's Office said there is very little to be concerned about in terms of swarming swarming 1. a phenomenon observed in cultures of Proteus spp. on solid media in which there is progressive surface spreading from the parent colony. 2. the periodic bee migration of the old queen and accompanying workers and drones from a full original hive which is danger among yellowjackets. ``Yellowjackets are fairly common in the county,'' said Alan Laird, deputy agricultural commissioner. ``They can build their nests anywhere they want and they can be provoked, but they're not very aggressive. They're more of a nuisance than anything.'' Ventura bee keeper Bill Weinerth agreed that yellowjackets are less aggressive with humans than some stinging insects stinging insect Entomology A hymenopteran that stings Types Aphids–eg, honeybees, bumblebees; vespids–eg, hornets, yellow jackets; wasps; stinging apparatus consists of a venom-filled sac attached to a barbed stinger; the multiple barbs on the , but said that unlike honey bees, they have barbless stingers, which means they can sting repeatedly. |
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