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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) » Long-waisted Paper Wasps (Mischocyttarus) » Western Paper Wasp (Mischocyttarus flavitarsis)
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Whatta' Wasp! - Mischocyttarus flavitarsis
Copyright © 2022 Bob OBrien

Whatta' Wasp! - Mischocyttarus flavitarsis
Carver, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
August 7, 2022
I can't see too clearly through the 300mm lens viewfinder due to wearing glasses, and some bugs disappear so fast I just immediately look through the lens to focus. I almost didn't even take this photo, noting the yellow legs, as a European Paper Wasp. Fortunately I pushed the shutter anyway, sort of an insurance shot. I should have then looked at the image in the camera screen, but luckily the single photo came out half decent. Not sure what this wasp is but have never seen such before. A Wonderful Wasp.
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Contributed by Bob OBrien on 8 August, 2022 - 12:56am
Last updated 14 October, 2023 - 9:20pm

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… Jonathan Hoskins, 8 August, 2022 - 3:38am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Although greatly outnumbered hereabout by European Paper Wasp, there are lots of Oregon/Washington records. I've seen only one other one here in Carver.
… Bob OBrien, 8 August, 2022 - 8:18am login or register to post comments

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