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Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus)
Photo#72751
Copyright © 2006
motobug
paper wasp -
Polistes fuscatus
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Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
August 24, 2006
Size: .75 - 1 inch
This wasp was sitting on our window. Our guess was that it is some sort of paper wasp, but we haven't seen one with green eyes like that before.
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motobug
on 24 August, 2006 - 10:26pm
Last updated 17 February, 2010 - 7:21am
Polistes fuscatus, male
ID confirmed based on the all dark apical flagellomeres (male character).
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Matthias Buck
, 24 October, 2006 - 10:29am
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Polistes male.
This is a male paper wasp. You can tell by the yellow, squarish face, long, hooked antennae, and blunt tip of the abdomen. This is probably Polistes fuscatus, but hard to tell conclusively from this angle.
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Eric R. Eaton
, 25 August, 2006 - 2:19pm
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