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Wasp - Polistes dominula - female

Wasp - Polistes dominula - Female
Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, USA
August 21, 2017

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These are all females.

Species...
... Polistes dominula - European Paper Wasp; see here: (1).

 
Polistes dominula - European Paper Wasp
Thank you, I have a fair number of these in my yard, and possibly other species too. I have had a number of people say I should get rid of them, but I consider them to be beneficial as pollinators and, they are the only ones I have seen go after earwigs, even the birds seem to ignore the earwigs.

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