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Doubt it. I’m two states (about 8 hr drive) in Montana and my wife and I think we saw one. I tried to get a pic but was too slow.
by sethammons 6y ago
Doubt it. I’m two states (about 8 hr drive) in Montana and my wife and I think we saw one. I tried to get a pic but was too slow.
- throwanem 6y agoThere are a lot of large insects that bear a superficial resemblance to V. mandarinia, especially in the absence of familiarity with hymenopterans. From WSDA's map of citizen sightings, it looks like the most commonly mistaken animals are large sawflies, which are very distant relatives of wasps and hornets and actually serve a significant ecological role by parasitizing the larvae of various tree-boring beetles.