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Yellow Jacket 1 - Vespula flavopilosa
Copyright © 2007 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Yellow Jacket 1 - Vespula flavopilosa
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 23, 2007
Male, female...?

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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 24 September, 2007 - 1:29pm
Last updated 26 September, 2007 - 12:06am

A worker
Hence a female. Vespula flavopilosa (Downy Yellowjacket) like the previous one you posted, although the small yellow stripes on mesoscutum are lacking. But a Common Yellowjacket would have a longer and darker pilosity on the thorax.
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