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Paper Wasps are Beautiful and Very Interesting

Wild for Nectar Paper wasps (Polistes exclamans), belonging to the family Vespidae, are fascinating creatures known for their slender bodies, long wings, and intricate nests. They construct their nests by mixing wood fibers with saliva to create a paper-like material. These nests have a unique texture and serve as individual chambers for each wasp to lay their eggs. The nests also provide…

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Velvet Ants Look Like Large Ants, but are Really Unique Wasps

Ant or Wasp? One of the things I enjoy about photographing insects is that there are no shortage of them and many of them have very interesting characteristics. One example, are velvet ants. They look like giant ants, but in reality, they are wasps. But if that’s not interesting enough for you, it’s only the females that look like ants! The males have wings, fly around, and look and act like any…

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Paper Wasps Have a Very Interesting Social Structure and Lifestyle

Paper Wasps Have a Very Interesting Social Structure and Lifestyle explains how these beautiful wasps over winter and how they start new colonies in spring. It also touches on their complex social structure.

Settling in for a Long Winter’s Nap During the summer months the insect world is so lively and vibrant it’s hard to even begin to keep up with everything that’s going on, even on my little eight acres. As fall begins, things definitely slow down and many of our insects disappear either into hibernation, a chrysalis, or some other dormant form. These dormant forms are usually much better able to…

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