Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Paper Wasp

Polistes exclamans

Description:

Yellow, black, and red striped Vespid wasp building a "paper" nest in a string of solar porch lights. Not particularly aggressive but I don't plan on pushing my luck.

Notes:

A "paper" nest in a string of solar lights hanging on my shaded front porch.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Common Paper Wasp
Polistes exclamans Species Polistes exclamans - BugGuide.Net


Sign in to suggest organism ID

1 Comment

JonathanHoskins
JonathanHoskins 6 years ago

The bright orange antennal tips diagnose this as P. exclamans, a similarly colored member of the genus.

flowntheloop
Spotted by
flowntheloop

Georgia, USA

Spotted on Jul 17, 2017
Submitted on Jul 18, 2017

Related Spottings

Polistes versicolor paper wasp Vespa European Paper Wasp

Nearby Spottings

Eastern pondhawk Red-banded Leafroller Moth Lunate zale Suzuki's promolactis moth
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team