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Three-quarter inch long wasp.
Woodlands, my deck, anywhere I seem to look during the summer in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.
Sting packs a wallop!
Spotted on Jul 12, 2018
Submitted on Jul 15, 2018
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That's a very colorful wasp. Many of the paper wasps are hard to identify because they tend to change colors from region to region.
Not 100% sure, hovever, I've seen pictures of Polistes dorsalis that look like your specimen.
https://greennature.com/wasps/