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Yellowjackets of America North of Mexico
By Akre, R.D., A. Greene, J.F. MacDonald, P.J. Landolt, and H.G. Davis
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1980
Cite: 5920
Agriculture Handbook No. 552, 102 pp.

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Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 17 August, 2004 - 8:13pm

Yellowjackets of America North of Mexico
Recently had a chance to look at this publication. It is quite good, with a great worker key and nice big black and white drawings. And then pages and pages of info on biology etc. The only drawback is that the parasitic species (two in the NE, maybe others?) are not in the key because they do not have a worker class. The Queen takes over the nest of another species and lets those workers do the work. Interestingly this reference does have good right-ups on these species, you just can't find them going through the key. Also of course there are no keys for males or queens.

Another, older reference, of which I do not have a full citation is; Supplement 22 of the Canadian Entomologist. It has a key that is a little harder to use but still with good B&W drawings and includes males and queens but does not include the introduced V. germanica or the "new" species V. flavopilosa. If you can get both you're set.
… David Bree, 29 March, 2005 - 7:55pm login or register to post comments

Thanks, Troy!
Thank you for posting this information.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 August, 2004 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

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