Norwich City, on the other hand, has a lot of two things: oilseed rape and Canary fans wearing the bright yellow uniform of their hometown futbol club. You don’t wear you work uniform from Target in the middle of a bullfight without getting the horns, you don’t wear your favorite pitbull shirt while refereeing a dogfight without getting bite marks in your shinbone, you don’t mess around with Jim and you don’t wear your pollen-colored jerseys without getting poked by swarms of Meligethes aeneus looking for food.

Ian Bedford, head of entomology at the John Innes Centre in Norwich said: “Yellow is always a good colour to attract insects and that’s why we have yellow sticky traps in greenhouses to monitor the number of pests around.

No word on whether the Norwich City Canaries plan to change the hue of their unis, but at least the Pittsburgh Pirates public relations department have a new excuse as to why they can’t get people to show up to home games.

H/T Daily Telegraph

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