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Yellowjackets and their Relations
• Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Family: Vespidae Subfamily: Vespinae, (and Polistinae) Genus: Vespula or Dolichovespula
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Polistinae vs. Vespinae
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Identification by Patterns
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Social Behavior!
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Division of Labor!
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Parental Care…
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Behavioral Studies
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Seasonal Cycle
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Embryo Nest
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Mature Colony
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Home Sweet Home !
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In “Nature”
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Abernathy Creek
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Dolichovespula norvegicoides!!
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Huge nest, small “colony”…
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Small nest, large colony
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Seasonal Cycle
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Vespula acadica
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Vespula pensylvanica
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a.k.a. “Western yellowjacket”
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Vespula vulgaris
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Dolichovespula arenaria (aerial?!)
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D. arenaria – paper is exposed…
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Beneath the carton…
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1986… a fresh start!
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Vespula germanica
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Vespa crabro… a “hornet”!
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Some odd locations…
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Bird house?? Warm day!
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Living room window (outside!)
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Social Parasitism
No worker class… make slaves of their host species!
Dolichovespula arctica (with D. arenaria)
Vespula austriaca (with Vepula rufa group species)
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Social Parasitism
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V. vulgaris usurped by V. pensylvanica
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“Common” replacement by “Western”
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YJs as “Beneficials”… predatory
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To Bait or Search… ??
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Collecting a ground colony
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“Hornets”
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