3:00 snapshot #989 Green living

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Trapping and hopefully identifying yellow jacket queens

Yellow jackets have begun building their nests! This one built a nest inside the shed where I keep my insecticides (pause for laughter). It came down when I opened the shed door, and two yellow jackets came out: the one pictured, and a much smaller one. I caught this one with a glueboard in order to photograph the marks on the abdomen, which supposedly help identify the yellow jacket to species.

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