Forest yellowjacket (Vespula acadica)

Forest yellowjacket (Vespula acadica) worker wasp visiting flower. Mendocino County, CA
Photograph by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

FOREST YELLOWJACKET FACTS

Classification

Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Genus:	Vespula
Species:	acadica
Common Name:	Forest yellowjacket

Relatives in same Genus
  Prairie yellowjacket (V. atropilosa)
  German yellowjacket (V. germanica)
  Eastern yellowjacket (V. maculifrons)
  Western yellowjacket (V. pensylvanica)
  Southern yellowjacket (V. squamosa)

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