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Red Paper Wasp

Polistes carolina

Photo by HeatherMiller
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Field Notes

Description:

Orange body, long abdomen, black wing, appears stinger-less, orange eye, 6 legs.

Habitat:

This bug liked my purple Salvia.

Notes:

I have searched for this one all over and can find nothing. I don't know the difference between a bee, wasp, hornet so I'm really at a loss where to start if bugguide.net does not have a similar picture.

Thank you for the ID help.

Species ID Suggestions

Polistes canadensis

Comments (1)

is this the kind guy? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6425024

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