Albany Water Gas and Light officials are urging people to stay away from a huge yellow jacket's nest in a west Albany alley that a beekeeper says contains close to 100,000 yellow jackets.
The nest is behind homes in the 2200 block of Lullwater Road near the Porterfield United Methodist Church playground.
Experts say the nest is at least three feet wide and three feet underground. Clinton Green reported it to the city and county two weeks ago, but nothing was done. Water Gas and Light linemen found it Monday and called in a beekeeper to destroy it.
"When I first saw it , just the edges of the hole. The hole they started weaving it. But now it's like that large. And it has 12 to 14 holes in it," said Clinton Green, Homeowner.
"I'm seeing more yellow jackets this year than I've ever seen. It's usually two or three cases a week now, if not two or three a day," said Master Bee Keeper Dale Richter.
Porterfield's pre school stopped using the playground because of the yellow jackets.
Richter will return early tomorrow morning when the nest is not so active and kill the yellow jackets.
He says it's so big, it will probably need two treatments.
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