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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Vespidae » Paper Wasps (Polistinae) » Umbrella Paper Wasps (Polistes) » Subgenus Polistes (Polistes Subgenus Polistes) » European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
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More wasps drinking from bird bath - Polistes dominula
Copyright © 2007 Aydin Örstan

More wasps drinking from bird bath - Polistes dominula
Backyard of house, Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
August 3, 2007
The darker one in right-hand photo has been identified as Polistes fuscatus (http://bugguide.net/node/view/133602#170821). Are the yellow-banded ones P. dominula?
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Contributed by Aydin Örstan on 3 August, 2007 - 5:25pm
Last updated 18 August, 2007 - 7:32pm

correct
the yellower one is polistes dominula, the european paper wasp.
I'm curious, was it really december 31 when you took these photos???
The nests should have died out by then in your erea.
… vulgaris, 3 August, 2007 - 5:30pm login or register to post comments

 
date corrected
I took the pictures today, August 3rd. The previous date was wrong & I don't know where it came from. Thanks for pointing it out.
… Aydin Örstan, 3 August, 2007 - 6:36pm login or register to post comments

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