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 Southern yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa)

Southern yellowjacket | Vespula squamosa photo
Face of a Southern Yellowjacket Queen (Vespula squamosa).
Photograph by Opo Terser. Some rights reserved.  (view image details)








SOUTHERN YELLOWJACKET FACTS
Classification
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Vespidae
Genus:Vespula
Species:squamosa
Common Name:Southern yellowjacket


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





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