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Paper Wasp - Polistes annularis - female
Copyright © 2006 Lynette Schimming

Paper Wasp - Polistes annularis - Female
Asheboro, North Carolina, USA
March 11, 2006
a brown and black paper wasp

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Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 12 March, 2006 - 7:18am
Last updated 19 July, 2008 - 12:51pm

I think this is a queen paper wasp, I love it
Hi all, I think this is a queen, and not a worker. The adomen looks longer.
… Bill D., 30 May, 2007 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Polistes.
… Eric R. Eaton, 20 November, 2006 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

Polistes annularis, female (NC)
A very nice series of pictures (and apparently the first of this species on bugguide)! Note the contrastingly coloured apical flagellomeres and the slender first metasomal segment (as in P. exclamans which is heavily marked with yellow). Otherwise similar to P. metricus.
… Matthias Buck, 26 October, 2006 - 3:13pm login or register to post comments

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