May. 17th, 2014

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My pals, zookeepers Kikipuff and Grace.
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If you are in a place with harsh freezing winters, and you see a yellow jacket in May, you are most likely seeing a queen. She has woken up from her sleep, where she was hiding under bark or under a nice warm rotting log, or--as I suspect in this case--in a crevice or wall void in a building. Queens can sting, apparently, but this one had no interest in doing so. I found her battering against a window, probably trying to get outside to find a place to establish a nest, with whatever energy she had stored from last year.


I got her a little wet, so that she would slow down a bit for the photograph (and this short hygiene video). I have a request in to Bugguide.net to identify her to species.
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I found myself in the odd position of researching where I could buy zoo animal feces, the substance I spend much of my day eradicating. Also there's a red panda footprint.
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Wait, did you guess "an animal?" because then you would have been right. This screech owl has become the most popular Franklin Park Zoo attraction, at least among those of us who work there.

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