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title: "Common Aerial Yellowjacket"
description: "Dolichovespula arenaria — Owady i pająki. Dolichovespula arenaria, also known as the common aerial yellowjacket (common aerial yellow jacket), sandhills hornet, and common yellow hornet, is a species of wasp within the genus Dolichovespula widely distributed in the North American continent."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/common-aerial-yellowjacket
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Aerial Yellowjacket

> Dolichovespula arenaria — Owady i pająki. Dolichovespula arenaria, also known as the common aerial yellowjacket (common aerial yellow jacket), sandhills hornet, and common yellow hornet, is a species of wasp within the genus Dolichovespula widely distributed in the North American continent.

- Scientific name: *Dolichovespula arenaria*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 19193
- Wikidata: [Q14424449](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14424449)
- iNaturalist taxon: [118913](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/118913)

## Names

- en: Common Aerial Yellowjacket
- es: Avispa chaqueta amarilla de altura común
- fr: Guêpe jaune commune

## Countries with the most observations

US (8769), CA (5989)

## Summary

Dolichovespula arenaria, also known as the common aerial yellowjacket (common aerial yellow jacket), sandhills hornet, and common yellow hornet, is a species of wasp within the genus Dolichovespula widely distributed in the North American continent.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichovespula_arenaria

## Photo

![Common Aerial Yellowjacket](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-aerial-yellowjacket/medium.jpg)

Photo: Theo Summer · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221483337

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-aerial-yellowjacket?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).