When I opened my window on a sunny morning, I found a yellow jacket jammed into the track, dead. How she got in there, I can't imagine. Maybe she was trying to make a hole to build a nest, but the metal window and track are unchewable and she couldn't turn around in the small space.
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| Bent double, to fit in the narrow groove. And now stuck in that position, and loaded with dust. |
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| The abdomen is strongly marked. Each species of yellow jacket has a slightly different pattern, which also varies according to its station in life; the queen, the worker, or the drone. I think this one is probably Vespula alascensis, but not the queen. |
I soaked her in a mix of half alcohol, half hand sanitizer overnight to soften her up, and straighten her out. It didn't work very well, but at least she got clean:
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| Slightly surprised, clean face, wet-look hairdo. |
I rarely see things flying in the cabin, but I'm always finding a dead wasp, bee or fly. - Margy
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