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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Paper Wasp

Polistes dominula

About

Builds open-comb nests from chewed wood fiber mixed with saliva, creating paper-like material. Has a complex social hierarchy with facial pattern recognition between individuals.

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Did You Know?

Paper wasps can recognize individual faces β€” they use facial patterns to identify nestmates and establish dominance hierarchies, one of the few insects known to have face recognition.