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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Paper Wasps (Polistinae) » Umbrella Paper Wasps (Polistes) » European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
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Wasp, cerceris? - Polistes dominula - male
Copyright © 2015 Steven Mlodinow

Wasp, cerceris? - Polistes dominula - Male
Firestone, Weld County, Colorado, USA
August 12, 2015
Size: 1.5-2 cm approx
Roadside, very disturbed habitat. A few sunflowers with a number of metallic green bees, a snout-nosed weevil, an Epicauta stinkbug, a large bumblebee, a slim robber fly with a red abdomen... so lotsa bugs in very degraded looking spot
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Contributed by Steven Mlodinow on 16 August, 2015 - 4:55pm
Last updated 16 August, 2015 - 6:25pm

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 16 August, 2015 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

European paper wasp

Polistes dominula
… Steve Scholnick, 16 August, 2015 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Paper Wasp
Arrggggg. I hate mis-identifying these! Thanks
… Steven Mlodinow, 16 August, 2015 - 5:51pm login or register to post comments

 
there might not be many of them
in Colorado - as opposed to this area of Maryland where they seem to be the most common Polistes
… Steve Scholnick, 16 August, 2015 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

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