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Paper Wasps

Ropalidia revolutionalis

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

Paper wasps, like small bees, these ones fairly plain and dull looking, always seem to have a dusty appearance. Sting is very painful.

Habitat:

Nests hanging in broad leafed trees in an urban back yard.

Notes:

These really hurt.

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Paper Wasp (Ropalidia revolutionalis)

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