WASP Vespa

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COMMON WASP Vespula vulgaris

Vespula vulgaris

This Wasp queen was delivered to our house 29.03.2018. It is the earliest queen we have heard of this year.

COMMON WASP Vespula vulgaris

Vespula vulgaris

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This wasp queen was found by Julian Eliassen in Djóna í Geilsgøtu, Tórshavn, 03.04.2017

GERMAN WASP Vespula germanica

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04.08.2024 Jeanette Lassen found this German wasp queen in a package of celery in the fridge. The wasp is most likely imported to the Faroe Islands 4-6 weeks before it was found.

Erling Ólafsson determined the species.

Vespula germanica
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On February 14, 2019, some children captured this German wasp Vespula germanica outside the school in Viðareiði.
It is the first find of this species on Viðoy, and it is unusually early for this species. We only know about a place in the Faroe Islands, where it was breeding in 2018, and it was in Klaksvík.
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German wasp queen Vespula germanica found in Klaksvík 19.12.2012. She is eating of an orange slice.
Read more about wasps in Faroe Islands

COMMON WASP Vespula vulgaris
Glaðsheyggur, Tórshavn, 27.08.2009 Glaðsheyggur, Tórshavn, 27.08.2009 A wasp family Inside the wasps' nest

In 2000 the must discussed subject in the Faroe Islands was, whether the wasps would survive the winter. I don't think, anybody is in doubt today...

Inside the wasps' nest
Read the Faroese article "Verða vespurnar verandi" from Frøði in 2001, which is still relevant today.
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