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Vespula rufa, worker - Vespula rufa - female
Copyright © 2006 D.K.B. Cheung & M. Buck

Vespula rufa, worker - Vespula rufa - Female
Churchill, Ramsay Creek, 58.7307°N 93.7796°W, Manitoba, Canada
August 15, 2006
Size: Wing length 10.0–11.0 mm
Image reproduced from Identification Atlas of Northeastern Nearctic Vespidae (1) in order to fill existing gap on Bugguide. Further images can be found there. Specimen deposited in the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Guelph, Ontario. From Malaise trap (August 15-17, 2006).
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Contributed by Matthias Buck on 29 February, 2008 - 1:27pm
Last updated 3 March, 2008 - 2:06pm

Thanks
for posting images of these yellowjackets; we have been waiting quite a while for these. This has to be the prettiest species.
… Tony-2, 1 March, 2008 - 2:59am login or register to post comments

 
i did
not even know that this species occured in North America.
… vespula vulgaris, 9 April, 2008 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

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