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Common Aerial Yellowjacket

Dolichovespula arenaria

Habitat:

Found on the water's edge struggling in the wet sand at a beach. It eventually flew off after a bit of a struggle crawling.

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2 Comments

Jellis
Jellis 7 years ago

I was looking at that too.
aerial yellowjacket dolichovespula arenaria

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 7 years ago

Would you mind checking out Dolichovespula arenaria, also known as the common aerial yellowjacket or sandhills hornet.
(i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichoves...
(ii)http://bugguide.net/node/view/31252

Machi
Spotted by
Machi

Alaska, USA

Spotted on Jun 29, 2016
Submitted on Aug 12, 2016

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