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Yellow jacket

Yellow jacket

This was a bit tricky. These guys were everywhere, and fall is not the best time to capture them. Fall time is when they are ravenous and rather evil tempered. ...
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This was a bit tricky. These guys were everywhere, and fall is not the best time to capture them. Fall time is when they are ravenous and rather evil tempered. Like bears they hibernate and what they consume this time of year determines their survival over the winter.
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Jun, 2020

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