{"id":309,"date":"2014-10-17T07:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:55:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:55:15","slug":"eastern-yellowjacket-vespula-maculifrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Eastern yellowjacket <em>(Vespula maculifrons)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_310\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eastern_yellowjacket_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-310\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eastern_yellowjacket_01-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"eastern yellowjacket\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eastern_yellowjacket_01-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eastern_yellowjacket_01-624x499.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eastern_yellowjacket_01.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eastern yellowjacket <em>(Vespula maculifrons)<\/em> is the most common yellowjacket in eastern North America. It often nests in urban and suburban environments. It aggressively defends its nest. It is able to sting multiple times but the barbed stinger sometimes becomes detached in the victim.<\/p>\n<p>This species of yellowjacket is identified by distinctive black and yellow markings on its head and body. The yellow band behind the compound eye is not notched, narrowed, or broken. There is no yellow \u201ceye loop.\u201d The thorax has no longitudinal stripes. The first abdominal segment has a broad, black, anchor-shaped mark. The workers do not have isolated black spots on the remaining abdominal segments.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/eastern_yellowjacket.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/eastern_yellowjacket.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/eastern_yellowjacket.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=309\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) is the most common yellowjacket in eastern North America. It often nests in urban and suburban environments. It aggressively defends its nest. It is able to sting multiple times but the barbed stinger sometimes becomes detached in the victim. This species of yellowjacket is identified by distinctive black and yellow markings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[115,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}