Well, I thought we had a ground hive of bees. They looked like bees. They sounded like bees. They scared me like a bee. I even ran away from them like they were bees. But turns out they are a hive of ground wasps.
Let me back up a minute. About 45 minutes ago I was outside pulling some overgrown grasses. It is one of those things I have been meaning to do forever. It just got away from me. You have things like this in your life, right? It is not just me, right? I was pulling, shaking excess dirt, pulling, shaking excess dirt. Going merrily along, patting myself on the back for finally getting to this task when I hear a bee buzz my head. I shook it off and went to grab more grasses. Just then several bees were swarming around my head.
I dropped the grasses in my hand and ran to grab my 2 year old who was playing bubbles about 3 feet away. We ran inside and shut the door. We can see from our family room window about 40 or so bees swarming around a hole 2 inches in diameter in the ground.
I know bees are wonderful pollinators of all plants. They are becoming more far and few between. Have you seen the movie Bee Movie 
So I called the wonderful people at my local Cooperative Extension Office. Being a 4-Her as a youth I knew the mass amounts of agriculture knowledge these people possess and are willing to share with you for FREE! So I placed a call and the lovely secretary connected me with a Master Gardner who informed me that my bees,were in fact, not bees but biting wasps. And his wife had been bitten by one earlier in the summer and had some funky infection on her leg.”They are dirty things you know” I was told by Bill, the Master Gardner.
So what does this do with Pinching Pennies!?
It comes down to this: Know your resources. Instead of calling an exterminator to come and take care of my ground wasps, I called the extension office and spoke with a real live person and got a real live answer for FREE!! What is the solution you may ask? Solution: A can of Wasp & Hornet Killer 
