Are wasps attracted to perfume or cologne?
Answer The answer is yes. In the early eighties, I read a short article in the Chicago Sun Time by reporter, Michael Weed, which read Michelle Honey dies from anaphylactic shock brought on by bee stings. Weed directed me to Chinta Strasbourg, the original reporter covering the story for The Chicago Defender, who, then, directed me to the funeral home whose student mortician looked to the puncture wounds around the diseased’s neck where they formed a necklace-like ring of 16 punctures, none of them with remnants of a sting, a chitinous substance left in the wound when stung by a bee. In addition the day was October 8, 1983, to my recollection. No multiple bee attack could ever occur away from the immediate proximity to a hive, and most certainly not within her work place or even on the outside of that grocery store. We knew these stings were caused by a single yellow jacket that was attracted to her perfume, getting caught below the collar of Michelle’s high collar silk blouse. Most unf
