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Photo#247496
Large Polistes - Polistes

Large Polistes - Polistes
NABA Butterfly Gardens, Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
December 24, 2008
Size: approximately 1.5"
We think this might be the same species as photo #247493. This is a different individual but in approximately the same location.

Thanks for any help!

Loren and Babs Padelford
Bellevue, NE

Wow.
Might be Polistes major? I collected something very similar in Arizona this year (didn't know it, either, until I went to pin it), so I'll be curious what Matthias Buck says.