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Vespa crabro

Vespa crabro
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 1, 2010
Found on a rotting peach.

The other day I saw one of these take down some kind of emperor (Asterocampa). I heard this thump as the hornet fell grasping and chewing at the emperor. In a minute or so all was left of the butterfly was the wings.

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