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Fraternal Potter Wasp

Eumenes fraternus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 92, February 94, March 149, April 292, May 560, June 262, July 198, August 402, September 204, October 154, November 96, December 86.
United States18,673
Canada2,699
Ontario2,349
Texas1,793
New York1,523
Ohio1,326
Virginia1,184
Illinois1,003
North Carolina993
Michigan885

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
GenusEumenes

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