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Reply To: | Susan L. Nielsen |
Date: | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:58:53 -0800 |
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dave Pehling wrote:
> Are you SURE they are "yellow jackets" (_Vespula sp._)? Sounds more like
> a winter aggregation of paper wasps (_Polistes sp._). Yellow jackets are
> supposed to die out over winter except for solitary queens which
> overwinter in protected places. Papers wasps overwinter in aggregations
> of siblings.
And, _boy_ do you want to shake out those gloves you left in the
shed last fall! (What a bummer, to put on the bee suit and find
the gloves full of paper wasps, who were most indignant at the
intrusion of 5 fingers into their happy shelter!)
Susan
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Susan Nielsen | Beehive: If you build it,
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