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Vespula ID Request - Vespula maculifrons

Vespula ID Request - Vespula maculifrons
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
September 19, 2007

Vespula maculifrons - worker
This color pattern of the gaster is quite typical of this widespread Eastern species. They are especially plentiful at this time of the year.

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