Western yellowjacket wasp, Vespula pensylvanica, with a piece of sockeye salmon flesh it chewed off of a salmon carcass. It is about to take off and f

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Western yellowjacket wasp, Vespula pensylvanica, with a piece of sockeye salmon flesh it chewed off of a salmon carcass. It is about to take off and fly back to its nest to feed it to developing larvae. Front view

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Size: 3671px × 2753px
Location: Ladner, Delta, British Columbia
Photo credit: © Ernest Cooper / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: arthropoda, close, close-, closeup, dangerous, detail, feeding, hymenoptera, insecta, jacket, macro, pensylvanica, pest, photography, salmon, small, sockeye, sting, stinging, venomous, vespidae, vespula, wasp, yellow, yellowjacket