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Small wasps about 10 to 12 mm body length . Shown here is a complete package - nest, eggs, larvae and adult. Armed with a painful sting.
Usually found nesting on low bushes or thick foliage plants, on secondary forests, cultivated and populated land.
Hello Shekainah. (Most) Paper wasps are colonial nesters and do not engage in the kind of Brooding behavior I have listed in the description of my mission "Brooding behavior in insects and other invertebrates" (see my previous comment) and the mission statement. But I certainly welcome any of your spottings (usually not wasps) which do! Thanks
Hello, as I understand it Polistes engages in a kind of parental care called allomaternal care which is really a kind of social worker behavior "[they] become workers that direct maternal behavior toward siblings in the presence of a reproducing female (most often their mother)". In any event it is not "INDIVIDUAL "parent" animals taking care of their OWN young." as requested by the mission statement. [Technical links which explain this behavior: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/35/14020... and http://www.public.iastate.edu/~amytoth/T... and http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jhhunt/Evolution%2... ] Thanks for your interest in this mission.
Shekainah I just asked you to check that link. I already commented as it is a Paper Wasp...
If you get help from my spotting....
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/172...
Im not sure really Ate Agnes so in the meantime I just remove the scientific name. Kuya Jolly have related spotting but I think it looks a little different.
Shekai, pls check. P. exclamans seems to be a North American species.
@ Ashish Nimkar, Asian giant hornet are too big, while these wasps are smaller.
It looks like Asian Paper Wasp "Polistes chinensis" but I didn't think they were that red.
Spotted on Dec 8, 2012
Submitted on Dec 31, 2012
