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Vespula sulphurea? - Vespula sulphurea
Copyright © 2013 Robert P. Sikora

Vespula sulphurea? - Vespula sulphurea
Silverwood Lake, San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino County, California, USA
August 9, 2013
Size: ~1.5 cm.
Drinking or mudding in drying rivulet crossing dirt road.
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Contributed by Robert P. Sikora on 24 November, 2013 - 6:42pm
Last updated 27 November, 2013 - 2:01pm

Moved
Moved from Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps.
… Vespula Vulgaris, 27 November, 2013 - 2:01pm login or register to post comments

Yes
Thank you for sharing this superb pic of a worker of this rather rare species. She was drinking or collecting water, not mud. Contrary to Eumenine wasps, mud is of no use for most social wasps.
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