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Bald-faced Hornets - Dolichovespula maculata - female
Copyright © 2009 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Bald-faced Hornets - Dolichovespula maculata - Female
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 17, 2009
On apple sauce
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 18 September, 2009 - 10:55pm

Not only picnics...
There are yellowjackets everywhere around trash cans and populated places.

Any luck finding a nest?
… Vespula vulgaris, 19 September, 2009 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

 
No luck yet finding the nests
No luck yet finding the nests. I think one is up the street near where a Queen tried to start one in a doorway but got kicked out.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 19 September, 2009 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

Gosh
Folks must have a hard time managing a picnic where you live.
… G Whiz, 18 September, 2009 - 11:29pm login or register to post comments

 
In the Fall a picnic can be b
In the Fall a picnic can be be down right dangerous-if one is allergic to bees. (I'm not) Most of the stings from Yellowjackets happen at this time of the year when they go after food on the table or climb into soda cans. I find it best to keep them on their own side of the street. :]

Since I set up this "feeding station" they don't bother us or empty my hummingbird feeders.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 18 September, 2009 - 11:55pm login or register to post comments

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