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Large wasp - Polistes rubiginosus - female
Copyright © 2007 Bobby Grizzard

Large wasp - Polistes rubiginosus - Female
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
April 22, 2006
Size: body at least 1"

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Contributed by Bobby Grizzard on 22 April, 2007 - 7:49pm
Last updated 4 February, 2009 - 4:23pm

Moved--error
Somehow managed to move this both from and to the same place. I found it in ID Request and tried to move it to here, Polistes perplexus, on the basis of comments by others.
… E Moon, 2 September, 2008 - 11:17am

 
I think what happened maybe
is that you thought it was in ID request since I put a thumbnail link to it on this image:
which I recently posted to ID request.
… Bobby Grizzard, 2 September, 2008 - 12:35pm

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