Is food that yellowjackets have been crawling on safe to eat?
Me and my bfs family were in Chicago over the weekend and we passed a pastry stand, it had easily 20 yellowjackets flying around and crawling all over the pastries and breads. My bf bought one of the croissants and ate about half, his stomach started hurting not very long after. I’m curious if this is because of all the wasps crawling all over everything since none of it was covered, or if it was just something else. I was also shocked NOBODY got stung, even when we waved our hands over them to get them away! We thought they were sweat bees based on how docile they seemed and they sort of have similar color patterns when you don’t look very hard lol. Picture of one of the little cuties added!
EDIT: I said we thought they were sweat bees, but I actually meant hover flies, we just call them sweat bees in my family, I looked it up for clarification and realized I misspoke!