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Southern Yellowjacket Queen - Vespula squamosa - female
Copyright © 2006 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

Southern Yellowjacket Queen - Vespula squamosa - Female
Gloster, Gloster Arboretum, Amite County, Mississippi, USA
May 13, 2006
Size: body length 19.3 mm.
Found along edge of woodland trail by Caroline Bauder.

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 15 May, 2006 - 7:13pm
Last updated 11 July, 2006 - 8:52am

Looks like this
Southern Yellowjacket (to me, at least). I used Tony Thomas' wasp ID page to find it.

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 15 May, 2006 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Hannah
I have moved the images to the guide page.
Gayle
… Gayle and Jeanell Strickland, 15 May, 2006 - 10:35pm login or register to post comments

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