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Apache Paper Wasp

Polistes apachus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 275, February 263, March 298, April 566, May 347, June 168, July 260, August 253, September 284, October 388, November 258, December 250.
Texas4,366
United States4,285
California389
Oklahoma272
New Mexico128
Nevada108
Mexico81
Arizona49
Colorado46
Nuevo Leon30

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyHornets, Paper Wasps, Potter Wasps, and Allies · Vespidae
GenusUmbrella Paper Wasps · Polistes

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