Dolichovespula adulterina

Description

Dolichovespula adulterina is a species of parasitic social wasp. D. adulterina lives in the Palearctic and Nearctic regions but parasitise different host species depending on which region it inhabits. D. adulterina feeds on a variety of foods including insects, spiders, arthropods, meat, molluscs, fruit, nectar and larval secretions. D. adulterina is synonymous with D. arctica from the Palearctic region.