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Mating Yellowjackets - Vespula pensylvanica - male - female

Mating Yellowjackets - Vespula pensylvanica - Male Female
Mount Union, Prescott National Forest, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
November 6, 2014
These two male wasps were fighting over this female for quite a while before the one won. They were on a bright sunlit roadside at about 8000 feet in elevation, on Gambel Oak.

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