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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.
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. [1]
Vespula germanica belongs to the genus Vespula, which includes various species of social wasps that are found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.In North America, these wasps are most commonly known as yellowjackets, but this name also applies to species within the sister genus Dolichovespula.
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.
[2] [3] Most species only occur in the tropics of Asia, though the European hornet (V. crabro) is widely distributed throughout Europe, Russia, North America, and north-eastern Asia. Wasps native to North America in the genus Dolichovespula are commonly referred to as hornets (e.g., baldfaced hornets), but all of them are actually yellowjackets.
Yellowjackets and paper wasps are the two most common social wasp species in Northern California, Kimsey said. Social wasp colonies are started from scratch each spring by a queen who survives ...
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 ...
Polistes carnifex, commonly known as the executioner wasp or executioner paper wasp, is a neotropical vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus Polistes. It is a very large yellow and brown paper wasp with a mandible that contains teeth. [ 5 ]