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Yellowjacket - Vespula flavopilosa - female
Copyright © 2007 Ilona L.

Yellowjacket - Vespula flavopilosa - Female
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
September 16, 2007
Is it possible to tell if this is a Vespula flavopilosa? After sending in the other photo earlier today and finding out there was a V. flavopilosa in that photo along with all the other wasps, I decided to look through the other photos I have to see if I could find an example of this wasp by itself.
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 15 October, 2007 - 9:56pm
Last updated 1 November, 2007 - 5:08pm

Moved
Moved from Vespula.
… Ilona L., 16 October, 2007 - 12:36pm login or register to post comments

Possible to tell, yes - Vespula flavopilosa
Indeed, this excellent shot shows all key features of a typical worker of the Downy Yellowjacket: dense, tan pilosity on sides of thorax, two yellow stripes on mesoscutum and broad diamond-shaped spot on 1st urotergite.
… Richard Vernier, 16 October, 2007 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

 
Great! Now I'll have to go t
Great! Now I'll have to go through my photos and see how many others I have misfiled under the wrong name.
… Ilona L., 16 October, 2007 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

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