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Wasp to identify please... - Dolichovespula adulterina
Copyright © 2007 pilonm

Wasp to identify please... - Dolichovespula adulterina
Vermont, USA
July 28, 2007
Hello, Ouf, those hymenoptera! Not easy for a newbie like me!
Here are 2 pictures of a wasp photographied last July in Vermont...
Someone can help me to identify it?
Could it be a male Dolichovespula arctica???
Any idea?? Thank you very much for your help...
Michel

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Wasp to identify please... - Dolichovespula adulterina Wasp to identify please... - Dolichovespula adulterina
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Contributed by pilonm on 31 December, 2007 - 9:55am
Last updated 1 January, 2008 - 4:51pm

well, yes...
it looks like a male dolichovespula adulterinia(same as D. artica), the parasitic yellowjacket, but it could also be a male blackjacket, vespula consobrinia. im not good at telling the two apart...
… Vespula vulgaris, 31 December, 2007 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

 
This is a male Dolichovespula adulterina arctica
Shape of pronotum, clearly visible on both these very good pics, rules out Vespula consobrina.
… Richard Vernier, 31 December, 2007 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Bonjour Richard :-) Thank
Bonjour Richard :-)

Thank you very much for your confirmation of my identification!

It will then be a male Dolichovespula arctica :-)

Merci encore!

Michel
… pilonm, 1 January, 2008 - 10:13am login or register to post comments

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