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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Hornets and Yellowjackets (Vespinae) » Vespula » Southern Yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa)

Species Vespula squamosa - Southern Yellowjacket

Classification · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Vespula squamosa - female Yellow Jacket- - Vespula squamosa Unknown wasp, possibly a hornet. Captured at Brazos Bend State Park. - Vespula squamosa Southern Yellow Jacket? - Vespula squamosa - male Southern Yellow Jacket - Vespula squamosa - Vespula squamosa - female Bee - Vespula squamosa ground wasp? - Vespula squamosa Vespula squamosa (Drury) - Vespula squamosa - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea (Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets)
Family Vespidae (Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps)
Subfamily Vespinae (Hornets and Yellowjackets)
Genus Vespula
Species squamosa (Southern Yellowjacket)
Identification
Color patterns of Florida yellowjackets.
Range
Eastern United States, Mexico, Central America.
Life Cycle
All species are social, living in colonies of hundreds to thousands of individuals.
Remarks
Queens take over already established small nests of either V. maculifrons or V. vidua.
Print References
Tissot, A.N. & F.A. Robinson. 1954. Some unusual insect nests. Florida Entomologist 37: 73-92. Full PDF
Internet References
Species page in the Identification Atlas of the Vespidae of the Northeastern Nearctic Region. (1)
Florida Featured Creatures - Yellowjackets and Hornets
Paper Wasps, Yellowjackets and Solitary Wasps - TAMU
Associated Press: Yellow jackets building enormous nests in Alabama - July 17, 2006
Works Cited
1.Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the Northeastern Nearctic Region
By Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K. B. Cheung
Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 17 September, 2004 - 2:28pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Matthias Buck, Mike Quinn
Last updated 21 July, 2009 - 1:51pm

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