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Eastern Yellow Jacket? Queen? - Vespula maculifrons - female

Eastern Yellow Jacket? Queen? - Vespula maculifrons - Female
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
April 19, 2004
Size: 2 cm
There was s subject in the forum about finding queens-I have been finding them (trying to catch them) while they are scoping out new homes in buildings and stone walls etc.

Exactly right!
i too live in PA and these are by far the MOST common yellowjacket around.

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