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[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: MAY 5TH, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A video and six photos of a red and black female carolina red paper wasp perching on a leaf holding a ball of water in her mandibles, with it at various stages of dripping out /End IDs.]

Her water ball!!! :]

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コアシナガバチがヤブガラシで吸蜜してた。コアシナガバチは西東京市の庭によく来ていたので馴染みがある。模様と色味がかわいらしい（8月2日）

Polistes snelleni, Japanese paper wasp

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fine-backed red paper wasp?

watching them collect stuff for their nests is so fun

Have you seen the fine-backed red paper wasp (Polistes carolina)?

I have now

Yes, in photos/videos

Yes, irl

I'm not sure

Voting ended onJul 29, 2025

Two Paper Wasp Nests

Unidentified, genus Polistes

22/03/23 - NSW

It honestly felt like it was looking directly at me. Wasps are scary looking, to be sure, but they really do get a bad rap. It watched me for awhile, backing away when I got close and eventually deciding I was being a little too annoying for its taste, and flying away. I honestly found it kind of cute, in a death machine covered in sparkles kinda way.

By the way, I believe this to be a paper wasp. No idea what species, though; leaning towards P. parametricus, but I'll happily take any corrections in the comments! 😃

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Paper Wasp (Polistes stigma, Polistinae, Vespidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu'er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese Hymenopterans (wasps, hornets, bees, ants and sawflies) on my Flickr site HERE...