A few expert birders are swarming – with stingers bared – after reading my outdoors column about yellow jackets last week and its reference to hummingbirds. They say hummers flee from wasps and have little interest in kicking their venomous butts, no matter how irritating they can be. The column quoted fly fishing guide G.L. Britton, who had said 2013 was as bad a year for yellow jackets as he could remember in his career. “I’d seen pics of hummingbirds tongue-lassoing wasps ahead of the...
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