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Paper Wasp

Photo by Ron Rockwell
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Field Notes

Description:

Three-quarter inch long wasp.

Habitat:

Woodlands, my deck, anywhere I seem to look during the summer in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

Notes:

Sting packs a wallop!

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
gratography
That's a very colorful wasp. Many of the paper wasps are hard to identify because they tend to change colors from region to region. Not 100% sure, hovever, I've seen pictures of Polistes dorsalis that look like your specimen. https://greennature.com/wasps/
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PublishedJuly 15, 2018

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