Thousands Of Yellow Jackets Found In West Deer Home

A family in West Deer said they found a massive yellow jacket’s nest inside their child’s playroom.

“When I saw it, I knew I had to call somebody quick,” said Pat O’Brien.

O’Brien said when his son was stung on the foot, he never imagined that he’d find the yellow jackets making themselves at home.

“It looked like the size of a basketball. I ran upstairs to look for an exterminator," said O’Brien.

“Bee Hunter” Jim Abraham was called to the home to remove the nest.

"That is a yellow jacket hive, and they've been there since early May or mid-May,” said Abraham. “There are roughly a thousand of them in that hive."

Abraham was able to remove the nest but said there were more yellow jacket eggs waiting to hatch.

Abraham said if the O’Briens would have waited any longer, the nest would have grown through the ceiling.

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