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What are the hell are you looking at?! Oh yeah! Brings your boys! You're gonna need 'em!
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Hi, your wonderful work has been featured in the latest devPREMIUM 's Weekly Macro Spotlight Vol. 145 . Best regards!!
MarcosRodriguez , Curator of the Macro Gallery at devPREMIUM
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This piece has been Linked! You can find it in the artists' comments here: Shedding Skin--C.
This is a gorgeous capture. I don't like anything that stings, but photographs like this allow me to admire the subject from a distance. Great work!
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Yellow Jacket. Worker female. Very dangerous. Brave you are to get this close. In all truth, a yellow jacket tends to be one of three things:
1. Hungry. They like salt and sugar if water is mixed in. Your sweat is a fine drink to them.
2. Curious. They have very sensitive antennae and can feel/smell things we humans have no clue of.
3. Angry. You just put your boot in that hole where the nest was and now thousands of them want to kill you.
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The coloration is similar, but this is a spider wasp.
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It is probably much bigger than the typical Yellow Jacket and also more calm, perhaps?
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hahaha I absolutely agree with you 
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I have never been stung by a Yellow Jacket. They have swarmed around me as curious critters looking for a sip of something or simply being amazed at my kind of personal stink. I see them in the woods most warm days flying around hunting for Yellow Jacket goodies like flower nectar, salt licks, tree bark for nesting, and other Yellow Jackets. Being highly intelligent and very colourful paper wasps who live underground, they spend most of the day flying, chewing and spitting. They rarely sting, and then, only in self defense.
However, they are territorial and will defend their nest to the death. Most critters who see them notice the bright yellow of their exoskeletons and see them as poison, giving them a wide berth. In the forest, they are pollinators. Rangers consider them to be among the farmers of the flowers and trees, propagating many endemic species which depend on these beautiful wasps to spread pollen from bloom to bloom, similar to the work most bees and wasps do in the Smokies. However, Rangers warn visitors that Yellow Jackets are the most dangerous animal in the park since they are often found nesting near stumps along the trails.
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