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Guinea Paper Wasp

Polistes exclamans

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 788, February 754, March 857, April 1,625, May 996, June 827, July 937, August 826, September 962, October 844, November 740, December 717.
United States33,618
Texas14,585
California1,985
North Carolina1,960
Virginia1,564
Maryland1,379
Georgia1,367
Tennessee1,264
Pennsylvania981
Alabama858

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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