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Jemez Falls campgrounds, Santa Fe Nat'l Forest, NM
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Vespula is a small genus of social wasps, widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. Along with members of their sister genus Dolichovespula, they are collectively known by the common name yellowjackets (or yellow-jackets) in North America. Vespula species have a shorter oculo-malar space (shown in the figure below) and a more pronounced tendency to nest underground than Dolichovespula.
these yellow jackets are terrifying enough to be in a wild animal category
trapping us in the RV while they swarm around the campsite i'd rather have humming birds to photograph
but at least some 
for this capture 
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This lovely photograph has been featured here --->[link]
Please do 
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I love this. The focus is SLIGHTLY fuzzy but its a lovely shot. And Id imagine, a slightly dangerous one. In my experience, wasps and hornet type things are way more aggressive and testy than bees. So glad you made it out alive with this!
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many thanks -
i must admit i was a bit stressed when taking this shot 
thanks again for your kind comments on my hornet capture
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Youre welcome. I understand completely. I always get jittery taking pictures of them.
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Oh that's brave 
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thank goodness for my telephoto lens - 70-300mm - this all the yellow jacket images were shot as far away as possible
so how goes it with you, my friend 
has your boy gotten employment? sure hope he's happily on his way now
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Thank you Carole 
Bless you he has... sadly not what he wanted but that's due to only getting a 2/2 
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exactly
many thanks for your kind comment
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I can't help myself shivering as I look at this photo. Just to think how nasty it would be to put your face in that hole... :s
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Invertebrates is the correct category...If you go here and look in the sidebar for APN gallery descriptions you can find the correct place to put anything in the nature gallery gallery[link]
"* Invertebrates- Photographs of live Insects, Arachnids, Gastropods, Mollusc's, Butterflies and Dragonflies."
You can also check gallery descriptions during the uploading process just before you choose them.
And yes...yellow jackets can be nasty
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thanks for the information
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No problem. I watched put a lot of effort into revising the categories to make them easier, and adding gallery descriptions so that people would know that insects are Invertebrates. He's stepped down as APN gallery director now, but he deserves a lot of credit.
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he does indeed
however, insects are so varied - why not a category called insects, no?
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There was long, long debate... but basically if you started doing that...technically spiders aren't insects, nor are scorpions they would have been dealing with more miscats... Invertebrates is the correct biological term that covers all those creepy crawlies and gives a better home to slugs and snails as well.
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gotcha
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Trust me, you wouldn't want them in your garden 
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the web says these guys live in heavily forested areas
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