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paper wasp

Polistes sp.

Description:

Paper wasps building a nest on ornamental shrub.

Habitat:

Village yard, on Hibiscus sp. Surrounding habitats include freshwater swampforest, sago swamp, ocean beach and a forested limestone cliff ridge.

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3 Comments

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Very Nice!

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 12 years ago

Thanks. No I am often able to get quite close to "city" bees and wasps. In the forest it's a different story!

MickGrant
MickGrant 12 years ago

Great spotting - wearing Deet?

Scott Frazier
Spotted by
Scott Frazier

Papua, Indonesia

Spotted on Aug 21, 2011
Submitted on Aug 25, 2011

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