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  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flies back to the nest with two maggots lifted from a carcass.
    Yellowjacket_maggots-E17939.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) takes off from the nest with a clump of earth it has excavated to enlarge the underground nest, while another returns in the background with food for the growing brood.
    Excavating_Yellowjacket-E21222.jpg
  • A foraging Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with  a larva.
    Yellowjacket-E24836.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flys back to the nest with a large chunk of food.
    Yellowjacket_food-E23356.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) feeding on Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11682.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flies from the nest with a caterpillar.
    Yellowjacket_food-E27397.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flies from the nest with a clump of soil it excavated to expand the nest.
    Yellowjacket_Excavating-E25272.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) feeding on Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11693.jpg
  • A foraging Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the nest with a beetle,
    Yellowjacket_Beetle-E26590.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flies back to the nest with mandibles full of wood fibers that it has chewed off a dead branch. She will chew it into a pulp for building the paper cells of the nest.
    Yellowjacket-E21235.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flies back to the nest with mandibles full of wood fibers that it has chewed off a dead branch. She will chew it into a pulp for building the paper cells of the nest.
    Yellowjacket_pulp-E21600.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flies from the nest with a clump of soil it excavated to expand the nest.
    Yellowjacket-E19586.jpg
  • A foraging Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flies back to the nest with a fly it has caught.
    Yellowjacket_fly-E26093.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) feeding on Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11677.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flies head-on to the camera while maneuvering at the nest entrance.
    yellowjacket-E27256.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) wasp feeding on a Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar. This hornet has cut through the skin and is bitting off a manageable sized piece of the caterpillar’s muscular side to bring back to the larvae in it's underground nest.
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11694.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) feeding on an injured Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar.
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11574.jpg
  • Yellowjacket Queen and worker (Vespula maculifrons) at entrance to nest.
    yellowjacket_queen-21637_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) feeding on Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11708.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) wasp feeding on a Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar. This hornet has cut through the skin and is bitting off a manageable sized piece of the caterpillar’s muscular side to bring back to the larvae in it's underground nest.
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11775.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) feeding on an injured Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar.
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11534.jpg
  • Yellowjacket trimming vegetation away from entrance to nest
    Yellowjacket-20391_crop.jpg
  • Yellowjacket expanding nest; removing soil from hive chamber
    Yellowjacket-20454_crop.jpg
  • Yellowjacket returning to nest with food
    yellowjacket-20216_crop.jpg
  • Yellowjacket in flight at nest entrance
    Yellowjacket-20470_crop.jpg
  • Foraging Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) approaching an injured Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar. Caterpillar is in a defensive posture.
    cecropia_wasp-10324.jpg
  • A foraging Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) approaching an injured Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar that had been eating on lilac leaves. In my observations, the wasps left uninjured caterpillars alone. Biting Stable flys (Stomoxys calcitrans) often caused the initial damage, which weakened them and attracted the Yellowjackets.
    Cecropia_wasp-10365.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjackets (Vespula maculifrons) feeding on Cecropia (Hyalophora cecropia) caterpillar. One wasp has just arrived, the other is ready to fly back to the nest, with the bit of muscle already arranged for flight in it's mandibles.
    cecropia_yellowjacket-11783.jpg
  • Yellowjackets (Vespula maculifrons) in flight at nest entrance
    eastern_yellowjackets-21759.jpg
  • Foraging Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying off from a busy nest.
    Yellowjackets-E10720.jpg
  • Busy Eastern Yellowjackets (Vespula maculifrons) flying to and from the nest - one with a clump of soil it has excavated to enlarge the nest, and another returns with a caterpillar for the young.
    Yellowjackets-E25791.jpg
  • Two Eastern Yellowjackets (Vespula maculifrons) return to the nest with food, while a third leaves with a clump of soil it has excavated to enlarge the underground nest.
    Busy_Yellowjackets-E29500.jpg
  • Daddy Longlegs Spider (Opiliones order), passing by.
    daddy_longlegs-22647.jpg
  • Female Common House Spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum) with Yellowjacket hornet prey (Vespula maculifrons).
    spider_wasp-4764.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjackets (Vespula maculifrons) midair collision at entrance to nest; one returning with food, the other leaving to forage.
    eastern_yellowjackets-22906L.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest.
    yellowjacket-23993_crop.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the nest with a caterpillar.
    Yellowjacket-E24803.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with hairy piece of carrion.
    yellowjacket_skin-22349.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) at nest.
    yellowjacket-23623_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, with food.
    yellowjacket-22497_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returning to nest.
    yellowjacket-22574_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest carrying food.
    yellowjacket-23787_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight
    yellowjacket-22572_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with captured fly.
    yellowjacket-22177_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest.
    yellowjacket-23777_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, with food.
    yellowjacket-22752_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returning to nest.
    yellowjacket-21930_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) drinking sap from Boxelder Bug (Boisea trivittata) damaged lilac branches.
    yellowjacket-24091_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest.
    yellowjacket-23900_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with food.
    yellowjacket-23458.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with food.
    yellowjacket-23818_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with food.
    yellowjacket-23696_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight
    yellowjacket-22455_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjackets  (Vespula maculifrons) flying to and from nest; near collision.
    eastern_yellowjackets-21910.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest.
    yellowjacket-23869_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returning to nest.
    yellowjacket-22245_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returning to nest with food
    yellowjacket-22756_Crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjackets (Vespula maculifrons) midair collision at entrance to nest; one returning with food, the other leaving to forage.
    eastern_yellowjackets-22906_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) gathering wood fiber for nest material, alongside Boxelder Bug (Boisea trivittata) puncturing lilac branch for sap.
    yellowjacket-24081_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket foraging in Lilac bush, Boxelder bugs and Ladybug.
    yellowjacket-24110_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket nest dug up by raccoons.
    yellowjacket_nest-4696.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket nest dug up by raccoons.
    yellowjacket_nest-4687.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket nest dug up by raccoons.
    yellowjacket_nest-4693.jpg
  • Two Eastern Yellowjackets (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the underground nest entrance. The upper one with food.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40907.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons)  flies from the nest entrance with a large clump of sandy soil removed to enlarge the nest cavity.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41274.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying from the nest entrance with a clump of soil removed to enlarge the nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41599.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the nest entrance as another flies off with a clump of soil removed to enlarge the nest cavity.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41181.jpg
  • Two Eastern Yellowjackets (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the underground nest entrance. The rear one with a clump of chewed wood fibers for building the nest's paper cells and walls.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41540.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returning to nest with piece of meat
    eastern_yellowjacket-22584_c9.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight at the nest entrance.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40948.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the underground nest with food.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41117.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the nest with a small beetle.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41716.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41007.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight at nest entrance.
    eastern_yellowjacket-22389_crop.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the underground nest with food.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40940.jpg
  • The back of an Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons), in flight at the underground nest entrance.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40768.jpg
  • Foraging Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) and Boxelder bugs (Boisea trivittata)
    eastern_yellowjacket-24089_crop.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the nest entrance as another flies off with a clump of soil removed to enlarge the nest cavity.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41318.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with food.
    eastern_yellowjacket-23696_crop12.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with a captured fly.
    eastern_yellowjacket-22176_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with food.
    eastern_yellowjacket-23458_c12.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41011.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the underground nest with food.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40944.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket Queen (Vespula maculifrons) flying from nest.
    eastern_yellowjacket_queen_flyinig-2...jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flyning back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41307.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41193.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the underground nest with food.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40925.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the underground nest with food.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40882.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the underground nest entrance.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40779.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flyning back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41685.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flyning back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41853.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the nest with a small beetle.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41469.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40875.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) returns to the underground nest with food.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40828.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the nest with a bolus of chewed wood pulp for building the cell walls.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41619.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) in flight, returning to nest with food.
    eastern_yellowjacket-23638_crop.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flyning back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41107.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the underground nest as another prepares to leave.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E40823.jpg
  • An Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flying back to the nest with a mouthful of insect or spider to feed its nestmates.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41510.jpg
  • Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) flyning back to the underground nest.
    Eastern_Yellowjacket-E41171.jpg
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