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Paper Wasp

Genus Polistes

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Paper wasp

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Northern Paper Wasp

Polistes fuscatus

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JonathanHoskins
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Eduardo.Rodriguez
Thank you ForesDragon for helping me identify this and other species. Thanks :-)
ForestDragon
This pretty wasp looks to be a Paper Wasp from Genus Polistes. http://bugguide.net/node/view/572
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PublishedAugust 4, 2014

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