Oakesdale: Bee invasion ends up at WSU

A bee problem in the Oakesdale area turned into two boxes of bees for the WSU Entomology program this week.

In the past two years, the family of M.K. Sisak noticed a population of bees flying around a second, old house on their property off Highway 27. They started spraying around the location once a week before noticing the siding bulging out on the old house last summer.

This year they noticed more bees and decided to call WSU.

Last Thursday, June 27, Kenny Sunderland, a business student and former animal sciences major, arrived, and he and Sisak began taking the siding off one wall of the o...