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Polistes aurifer ? - Polistes aurifer - female

Polistes aurifer ? - Polistes aurifer - Female
Panoche Rd. 0.9 mi 116° from Panoche Pass, San Benito County, California, USA
May 6, 2012
Size: ~2cm length.
Saw this guy while photographing wildflowers with my 60mm macro lens, couldn't get as good a photo as if I'd had my 200mm lens on the camera. Looks similar to .

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Yes
This is indeed a female P. aurifer. Your previous specimen, nectaring upon a Baccharis bush, was a male.

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