On a hot day in late July, Jessie Rice and three of her kids were in the back yard of their South Anchorage home.
“I set up a little pool for them, and then we just got swarmed with wasps,” she said.
They ran for the house. No one was stung, Rice said, but a few days later, she was pulling a raft out of her shed and wasps swarmed her again. That time, she got stung three times…