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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Neotropical Paper Wasp

Polistes canadensis

About

A large reddish-brown paper wasp with dark wings that builds open-comb nests under eaves and branches. It is one of the most common social wasps in the Neotropics.

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Did You Know?

This was the first wasp species shown to recognize individual nestmates by their unique facial markings.