Officials have shut down a New Hampshire playground after it appears to have become infested by yellow jackets.
WMUR-TV reports the wasps can be seen all over the Portsmouth Plains Playground, which is now closed as of Tuesday. Portsmouth Recreation Director Russ Wilson says they almost had to cancel a nearby high school soccer game because one of the teams complained wasps were flying around the field.
Wilson says another playground had a similar problem, and officials had to dig up the ground to get at the yellow jackets’ nest. He says most of these wasps are in-ground, and the same thing may need to happen at this playground before it can reopen.
Wilson says he hopes for cold weather to get rid of the yellow jackets.