flavus or crabro?

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flavus or crabro?

Postby EMPTYHEAD0102 » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:29 pm

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Is this a flavus or male crabro??
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Postby Jason S » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:50 am

It's crabro; flavus have a slimmer body and only vertical bars.

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Postby EMPTYHEAD0102 » Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:40 pm

what's the chances of being baliodigma?
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Postby Jason S » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:12 am

Well the elongate body and pointed snout are more suggestive of M. baliodigma than Met. crabro. I can't recall ever seeing M. baliodigma offered in the U.S.; if you're in Europe I'd say baliodigma is more likely.
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