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Downy Yellowjacket

Vespula flavopilosa

The Downy Yellowjacket is a small, buzzing insect known for its bright yellow and black stripes. They live in nests and can often be seen flying around flowers and food during the summer.

Lebensraum: Urban areas

Aussehen

The Downy Yellowjacket is a medium-sized wasp with striking yellow and black bands across its abdomen. It has a distinctive black anchor-shaped marking on its yellow face and fine, yellowish hairs that give it a slightly fuzzy appearance, differentiating it from other smooth-bodied wasps.

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Downy Yellowjacket
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Downy Yellowjacket

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

3/5 · Mittel

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Interessante Fakten

Downy Yellowjackets help control garden pests by hunting other insects.

Only the queen yellowjacket survives winter to start a new colony in spring!

These tiny wasps build amazing paper nests by chewing up wood fibers!

They sometimes try to share your sweet picnic drinks and sugary snacks!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Stinging Defense

Downy Yellowjacket can deliver a painful sting because of a barbed stinger that helps them defend their nest.

Fähigkeit

Colony Communication

Downy Yellowjacket has special chemical signals, called pheromones, that help them alert the colony to danger or food.

Fähigkeit

Paper Architect

Downy Yellowjacket can chew wood fibers into pulp that helps them build intricate, multi-layered paper nests.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
20-35 mm
Größe
10-17 mm
Lebenserwartung
15-45 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
20 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6
Koloniegröße
5000

Ernährung und Fütterung

They eat both sweet nectar for energy and protein-rich insects to feed their young.

Altersunterschiede: Larvae are fed chewed up insects, while adults primarily consume sugary liquids.

Hauptnahrung

  • nectar
  • fruit sap
  • flies
  • caterpillars
  • spiders

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Striped Skunk

Mephitis mephitis

Digs up nests to eat larvae and adult wasps.

hunts

Cabbage White Butterfly

Pieris rapae

Hunts caterpillars to feed its growing young in the nest.

pollinates

Canada Goldenrod

Solidago canadensis

Visits flowers for nectar, incidentally transferring pollen.

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

3/5 · Mittel

Be careful around yellowjackets; they can sting if they feel threatened.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Downy Yellowjacket?

20-35 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Downy Yellowjacket?

10-17 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Downy Yellowjacket?

15-45 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Downy Yellowjacket?

20 km/h

Was frisst Downy Yellowjacket?

They eat both sweet nectar for energy and protein-rich insects to feed their young.

Wo findet man Downy Yellowjacket normalerweise?

Urban areas

Wie jagt Downy Yellowjacket?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Downy Yellowjacket?

6

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