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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) » Aerial Yellowjackets (Dolichovespula) » Common Aerial Yellowjacket (Dolichovespula arenaria)
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Unknown Bee - Dolichovespula arenaria
Copyright © 2008 Wisconsin Oecanthinancy

Unknown Bee - Dolichovespula arenaria
Richard Bong State Recreation Area, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, USA
May 24, 2008
Since I think this is a bee, I suppose it's actually a fly or hornet !
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Contributed by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy on 24 May, 2008 - 8:43pm
Last updated 14 June, 2008 - 2:35pm

Yellowjacket
- see this useful key. If I keyed it out correctly I think it's a Dolichovespula arenaria queen.



Those longitudinally folded wings are characteristic of Vespidae.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 24 May, 2008 - 9:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Yellowjacket
Thanks for the ID, Hannah. ...and for the link to the key for ID'ing bees, wasps, hornets. This gal definitely did not want my camera too close -- she would start pumping her abdomen and turn her head ever so slightly to look back at me.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 24 May, 2008 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

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