#3652 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Guinea Paper Wasp

Polistes exclamans

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1. © Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0
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3. © Annika Lindqvist · CC BY 4.0
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8. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
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10. © David Hill · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Polistes exclamans , the Guinea paper wasp , is a social wasp and is part of the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera. It has been found in Ontario, Canada and the eastern United States from Illinois down south to Florida and west to Nebraska and California. It is also found in Mexico from Chihuahua to Jalisco, Hidalgo. P. exclamans has shown variability in its range including an absence of the species in eastern Missouri from the 1920’s...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 37,204iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
37,204 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1906 (120 years ago).