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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) » Ground Yellowjackets (Vespula) » Southern Yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa)
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Southern Yellowjacket - Vespula squamosa - male
Copyright © 2011 Roy Cohutta Brown

Southern Yellowjacket - Vespula squamosa - Male
Chickasawhatchee, Dougherty County, Georgia, USA
August 14, 2011
Size: not recorded
Vespula squamosa - Southern Yellowjacket
Supposedly, I can't screw up this ID (highly distinctive and unmistakable) because of those conspicuous longitudinal yellow stripes on the scutum, (but I am not familiar with these.)
If correct, this would fill in Georgia's August datapoint. And more interestingly, this guy was scavenging, or had killed, what was possibly a Gryllus wood cricket (best seen in wider-view photos #2 and #3). In this first close-up photo, the Yellowjacket has torn off a chunk of prey and dragged it some distance from the main carcass.

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Contributed by Roy Cohutta Brown on 1 October, 2011 - 3:12pm
Last updated 2 October, 2011 - 4:53pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request. Yep. No mistaking it!
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