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Photo#30614
Yellow Jacket - Vespula vidua - male

Yellow Jacket - Vespula vidua - Male
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
September 4, 2005
Is this one of the queens?

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Yellow Jacket - Vespula vidua - male Yellow Jacket - Vespula vidua

Vespula vidua.
This is probably a male, of Vespula vidua. Nice shots.

 
Vespula vidua
That does look like it. Thanks for the ID Eric.

 
Male with a queen-like color-pattern
In Yellowjacket species where queens and workers have different color-patterns, it is not unusual for some (but not all) of the larger males, which are reared in large, so-called "queen" cells, to be rather more like queens.
This one specimen, with free black spots on the urotergites from the fourth backwards, obviously belongs to this category.

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