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Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:49 PM
We nearly stepped on this fellow in our kitchen in North Idaho. She is grey with a smooth abdomen and a fuzzy thorax and yellow front legs and face. At first we thought she was covered in plaster dust or something. Is she a polyester bee?
AnnE & James
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Queen Yellowjacket covered with dust
Dear AnnE & James,
We wanted to verify our suspicions with Eric Eaton, and this is what he wrote back to us: “Daniel: An extremely dusty queen yellowjacket, probably the western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica. Eric” With that, we can say you are lucky you didn’t step on her.
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