When it comes to yellow jackets, August is the cruelest month. Their peaking populations sting most often now. Their black and yellow bands are the signature — really more the warning signs — of venomous aggressors ready to inflict unforgettable pain on careless intruders.Clad in shorts, sandals, and a T-shirt, peacefully enjoying a recent late-summer palate of full-blossoming goldenrod, butter-and-eggs, poke-weed, purple loosestrife, joe-pye-weed, and tall- […]