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Dolichovespula adulterina
Dolichovespula adulterina is a species of parasitic social wasp. D. adulterina lives in the Palearctic and Nearctic regions but parasitize different host species depending on which region it inhabits. D. adulterina feeds on a variety of foods including insects, spiders, arthropods, meat, mollusks, fruit, nectar and larval secretions. D. adulterina is synonymous with D. arctica from the Palearctic region.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 465288.