Just a little pop of yellow hanging out on the window. I captured this image from my Nothing Phone 2(a).

#Photography #macrophotography #wasp #insect #yellow #yellowjacket #fotografia #photographie #mobilephotography #Photographer #nature #naturelovers #photooftheday

This appears to be a queen V. squamosa. I have no idea how she got on my windshield wiper, what she’s doing there now, or why she didn’t leave sometime during my five mile drive across town with a stop to get gas along the way. She just sat there wiggling about the whole time. #Insect #Entomology #YellowJacket
It’s not a story but it’s about a “bee” and a bolt.
Used the bolt as a life raft to pick it up out of cold water as the sun was coming up… very lethargic for a couple minutes… out in the sun, it showed greater signs of life and within minutes, climbed around a bit, cleaned its antennae, saluted me, and flew off.
… I guess there was a story… and I might have gone a little overboard with how many pictures of the same exact subject 😬
My bad 😅

#Work #yellowjacket #iphone #amature
I’m not a sportsball person. But I am a #georgiatech #yellowjacket. Any day where GT football wins is a good day.
Any day where GT wins and U(sic)GA looses, is a great day.
Today was a good day, and it was *almost* a great day.
Good job today, #Jackets. Better luck next time, #UGA.
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Yellowjackets eating a spotted lantern fly. It was dead before they got to it. Filmed 9/5/2025 Bethel Connecticut - yes, you may absolutely download & repost this elsewhere!
(this was one I smashed & they came in to scavenge)
#LycormaDelicatula #SpottedLanternFly #Yellowjacket #VespulaMaculifrons #InvasiveSpecies #Insects
Seem to have trained yellowjackets that spotted lantern flies are food!

neighbor K & I have been smashing lantern flies on the tree of heaven at next door gas station whenever we're on break. which has attracted yellow jackets to scavenge the corpses. It took them a few days to recognize them as edible, but now there's loads of them scavenging in area.

This morning saw one going after a live one! Did a bunch of exploratory bites but gave up in favor of joining other yellowjackets in pulling apart dead ones.

No issues with the yellowjackets bothering me or K while we're hunting lantern flies. They're just waiting for us to drop 'em and then swoop in. So just like other scavengers, just on a vastly different size scale than say ravens and wolves. We're kaiju sized to the yellowjackets.

#LycormaDelicatula #SpottedLanternFly #Yellowjacket #VespulaMaculifrons #InvasiveSpecies #Insects