Warrior wasp
The warrior wasp is a big, shiny, blackish blue wasp with dark wings. It lives in large families in Central and South America and builds paper nests flat against tree trunks. When it feels threatened, the whole family defends the nest together.
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Fun facts
It moves house as a big swarm, and the wasps leave a smelly trail on leaves for the others to follow.
Its paper nest has a domed roof with holes that work as doors.
Most nests have two or three parts, but one nest was found that stretched more than three metres.
A colony can have more than one queen at the same time.
Baby wasps become adults about 30 days after they hatch.
Most asked questions about Warrior wasp
?Where does the warrior wasp build its nest?
Flat against a tree trunk or branch, usually between 1.7 and 6 metres above the ground.
?How big is the warrior wasp?
About 2 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Synoeca septentrionalis
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Vespidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Synoeca septentrionalis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jose Antonio Aranda Pineda. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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