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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies (Vespidae) » Hornets and Yellowjackets (Vespinae) » Ground Yellowjackets (Vespula) » Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons)
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Eastern Yellowjacket eating Cicada - Vespula maculifrons
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Williams

Eastern Yellowjacket eating Cicada - Vespula maculifrons
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
August 23, 2009
Here's a holiday dinner! if you're a Yellowjacket.
I felt sorry for the cicadas in the park where the yellowjacket nest was. Not many made it to adulthood in one piece.

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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 18 December, 2009 - 10:52am
Last updated 19 December, 2009 - 9:50am

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… Andrew Williams, 19 December, 2009 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

Vespula maculifrons
Nice shots!
… Vespula Vulgaris, 18 December, 2009 - 2:13pm login or register to post comments

Now THAT'S a mental picture!
(But the photo DOES kind of bring a stuffed turkey to mind!)
… Gacko, 18 December, 2009 - 11:31am login or register to post comments

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