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European Paper Wasp

Polistes dominula

Photo by TracyL
Published on Project Noah
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sttweets
My first impression was a ichneumon wasp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonidae but it's hard to see the differences.
Ashish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistes_dominula

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