enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: giant brown paper wasp swarming around roof

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ropalidia romandi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropalidia_romandi

    Ropalidia romandi, also known as the yellow brown paper wasp [1] or the yellow paper wasp. [ 2 ] is a species of paper wasp found in Northern and Eastern Australia. R. romandi is a swarm-founding wasp, and manages perennial nests. [ 3 ]

  3. Paper wasp - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_wasp

    Approximately 300 species of Polistes paper wasps have been identified worldwide. The most common paper wasp in Europe is Polistes dominula. [2] The Old World tribe Ropalidiini contains another 300 species, and the Neotropical tribes Epiponini and Mischocyttarini each contain over 250 more, so the total number of true paper wasps worldwide is about 1100 species, almost half of which can be ...

  4. Polistes carnifex - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistes_carnifex

    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 ]

  5. Polistes carolina - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistes_carolina

    P. carolina is within the family Vespidae, which includes nearly all of the eusocial wasps and many of the solitary wasps. It is further placed within the subfamily Polistinae (paper wasps), which is the second-largest of the subfamilies within the Vespidae. The Polistinae contain two main behavioral groups: swarm founding, involving a large ...

  6. Ropalidia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropalidia

    Ropalidia is a large genus of eusocial paper wasps in the tribe Ropalidiini distributed throughout the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian biogeographical regions. The genus Ropalidia is unusual because it contains both independent and swarm-founding species. [ 1 ]

  7. Synoeca septentrionalis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoeca_septentrionalis

    Synoeca septentrionalis is one of five species of wasps in the genus Synoeca. [1] It is a swarm-founding wasp that is also eusocial, [2] exhibiting complicated nest structure and defense mechanisms [3] and a colony cycle including a pre-emergence phase and a post-emergence phase. [4]

  8. Polistes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistes

    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]

  9. Polistinae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistinae

    The English common name for Polistinae is paper wasp. Many polistines, such as Polistes fuscatus , Polistes annularis , and Polistes exclamans , make their nests out of paper. Despite being called paper wasps, other wasps (including the wasps in the subfamily Vespinae) also build nests out of paper.

  1. Ads

    related to: giant brown paper wasp swarming around roof