Lydia Wong was 22 years old and about to start graduate studies focused on wild bees when, while working with her brother on their sister’s farm outside Belleville, Ont., she inadvertently disturbed a wasp’s nest hidden in a bale of hay. Article content

“The moment we touched it, a huge swarm of yellowjackets came flying at us, and they all flew up my shirt, into my sleeves, and were just stinging me in the arms,” she says. Article content

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How many stings was it? “I think I counted at least a dozen,” she says, unfazed by the encounter. The fact is that Wong is an avowed wasp enthusiast. “I still love them,” she says.

Now a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa who studies cavity-nesting bees, especially in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Wo

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