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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 Aphanilopterus (Polistes Subgenus Aphanilopterus) » Guinea Paper Wasp (Polistes exclamans)
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unidentified wasp - in grass - Polistes exclamans - female
Copyright © 2014 Lara Berkley

unidentified wasp - in grass - Polistes exclamans - Female
New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA
August 23, 2014
Size: .85 in.
this wasp was eating a small caterpillar - in mowed grass.

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unidentified wasp - in grass - Polistes exclamans - female unidentified wasp - in grass - Polistes exclamans - female
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Contributed by Lara Berkley on 26 August, 2014 - 6:55am
Last updated 3 February, 2019 - 7:05pm

Moved
Moved from Polistes.
… Matthias Buck, 1 January, 2016 - 4:10pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 August, 2014 - 7:41am login or register to post comments

Paper wasp
Paper wasps seem to like carrying balled up caterpillar parts. I suppose they are headed back to the nest to feed larvae.
… John F. Carr, 26 August, 2014 - 7:10am login or register to post comments

 
paper wasp
neat - thank you!!! that's exactly what it looked like - caterpillar meatball.
… Lara Berkley, 26 August, 2014 - 8:59am login or register to post comments

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