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Show Have bees in your bonnet? Wasps, hornets and yellow jackets entering attics, or nesting nest-ing in trees around homes and playgrounds during the summer sum-mer can be a cause for concern. con-cern. Honey bees occasionally nesting inside the walls of homes or other buildings may also cause consternation. Dr. George Knowlton, Utah State University extension entomologist, en-tomologist, advises,, "when you locate the nests of wasps, hornets, hor-nets, or yellow-jackets, thoroughly thor-oughly spray them in the evening eve-ning when the insects are all in their nests. Use sprays containing con-taining 5 per cent DDT or 2 per cent Chlordane or 0.5 per cent lindane or dieldrin. Do not use dieldrin, lindane, or chlordane chlor-dane for spraying large areas inside rooms. "Destroy honey bees nesting in walls of your buildings by injecting a liberal amount of DDT, lindane or chlardane dust or spray through the entrance hole. Do this in the evening after all the bees have returned to their nest. After the bees have re-establishing a colony in the old location, as they will if ever they can find an entrance to reach the old bee nest." completely disappeared, securely secure-ly close the entrance to the nest. If at all possible remove and destroy the honey from such bee nests because of possible pos-sible insecticide residue in it and to prevent the bees from |