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2. Paper wasp - Wikipedia

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   Paper wasp (Polistes major) nest (); exposed comb Paper wasp growth stages Yellowjacket nest (); concealed combPaper wasps are a type of vespid wasps.The term is typically used to refer to members of the vespid subfamily Polistinae, though it often colloquially includes members of the subfamilies Vespinae (hornets and yellowjackets) and Stenogastrinae, which also make nests out of paper.

3. Polistes fuscatus - Wikipedia

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   Polistes fuscatus, whose common name is the dark or northern paper wasp, is widely found in eastern North America, from southern Canada through the southern United States. [2] It often nests around human development.

4. Polistes - Wikipedia

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   P. metricus, female. Polistes is a cosmopolitan genus of paper wasps and the only genus in the tribe Polistini. Vernacular names for the genus include umbrella wasps, coined by Walter Ebeling in 1975 to distinguish it from other types of paper wasp, in reference to the form of their nests, [3] and umbrella paper wasps. [4]

5. It’s a ‘big year for wasps’ in California. Here’s why and how ...

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   Wasps, which are typically about the size of a paper clip, can be identified by their pointed lower abdomens and narrow midsections, according to National Geographic.

6. Polistes apachus - Wikipedia

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   Polistes apachus is a social wasp native to western North America. [2] It is known in English by the common name Texas paper wasp, [3] [4] or southwestern Texas paper wasp. [5] It has also been called the Apache wasp, perhaps first by Simmons et al. in California in 1948.

7. Polistes exclamans - Wikipedia

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   Out of six wasp species, P. exclamans was the only one that occupied artificial nesting sites. [13] It prefers well-lit, open sites. [13] Old guinea paper wasp nest showing layers of different colors produced from different source materials. Polistes nests can be built from wood fiber which are collected from posts and plant stems. The fiber is ...