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Paper wasps

Polistes

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Field Notes

Notes:

They look like wasps? Very frighting to look up and see above your head.

Species ID Suggestions

Paper wasps

Polistes

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Comments (7)
Ava T-B
Please consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082378
LivanEscudero
These are adult paper wasps of some kind. Wasps don't have nymphs, they have grub like larva which live in the chambers of the hive. You can also tell they are adult insects because nymphs are characteristically wingless. Many of these paper wasps are very similar so I'd may be a little tricky. http://bugguide.net/node/view/572
stho002
Yes, or else they would be legless larvae
stho002
No such thing as wasp "nymphs", BTW!

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Wildlife of the South East, USA
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Nests, hives, bowers, webs & other animal architecture
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PublishedOctober 15, 2013

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