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Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus)
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Copyright © 2004
Rob Broekhuis
Paper wasp? -
Polistes fuscatus
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
September 10, 2004
Is this also a paper wasp? The colors are different from the one I posted yesterday
, but other features seem similar.
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Contributed by
Rob Broekhuis
on 13 September, 2004 - 9:51pm
Last updated 20 November, 2006 - 3:16pm
County?
Is Allentown in Lehigh county? Please add that info in
your entries
when you have time.
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Beatriz Moisset
, 2 September, 2008 - 7:24am
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Moved
Moved from
Polistes
.
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Eric R. Eaton
, 20 November, 2006 - 3:16pm
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Polistes fuscatus, male (PA)
Here a colour form with very limited yellow markings.
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Matthias Buck
, 14 November, 2006 - 5:40pm
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Male paper wasp
The one you posted earlier is a female, the one here is a male. You can tell by his yellow, squarish face (female has a dark, triangular face), and his longer, hooked antennae, blunt abdomen.
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Eric R. Eaton
, 17 September, 2004 - 12:02pm
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