{"id":3631,"date":"2014-11-16T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T10:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp\/2014\/11\/16\/the-last-of-the-yellowjackets\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T21:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T21:42:43","slug":"the-last-of-the-yellowjackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/2014\/11\/16\/the-last-of-the-yellowjackets\/","title":{"rendered":"The last of the yellowjackets?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Friday, while walking to work I found this male wasp, cold and still on the pavement. This was a male western yellowjacket,\u00a0Vespula pensylvanica<\/em><\/a>, and he was in rough shape. Even here in Vancouver, wintry weather comes this time of year, and we have had freezing nights for almost a week.<\/p>\n

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Males are easy to recognize, as they have long, 13 segmented antennae, and a long gaster with 7 apparent segments. Females have 6 segments on the gaster, and 12-segmented antennae.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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With the freezing weather we have had, this male was not really able to fly, so he was cooperative for some photos.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I have seen male yellowjackets later in the year than this, usually when their nest is within a heated home.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Further south, western yellowjackets have year-round colonies, with multiple queens, but here in Canada they generally conform to the single-foundress colony mode, with a single queen starting a colony in the spring, and dying off in the winter after producing males and new queens.<\/p><\/div>\n

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After this session, I found a nice sunstruck patch of moss, and laid down some honey (which I keep in a vial for ant photography) and let him have a last meal in the sun before the cold of night came to end his life.<\/p><\/div>\n

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  On Friday, while walking to work I found this male wasp, cold and still on the pavement. This was a male western yellowjacket,\u00a0Vespula pensylvanica, and he was in rough shape. Even here in Vancouver, wintry weather comes this time of year, and we have had freezing nights for almost a week.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,552],"tags":[624,625,626,627],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-fr","category-natural-history-fr","tag-male-fr","tag-photography-fr","tag-vespula-pensylvanica-fr","tag-western-yellowjacket-fr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}