Tropical paper wasp
Polistes stigma
The tropical paper wasp is a wasp from warm countries between India and Australia. Like other paper wasps, it builds its nest from a kind of paper that it makes by chewing wood.
Lives in
From India and Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia, Australia, Taiwan and Fiji
What does it eat?
The grown-ups drink sweet nectar. They catch caterpillars and other small insects to feed their babies.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Tropical paper wasp about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists count 19 different kinds of it, and most of them live on just one island.
2
Its home reaches from India and Sri Lanka to Australia, and east as far as Taiwan and Fiji.
3
A paper wasp nest is open underneath, so you can see the six-sided little rooms where the babies grow.
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Most asked questions about Tropical paper wasp
?Where does the tropical paper wasp live?
In warm countries from India and Sri Lanka to Australia, Taiwan and Fiji.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polistes stigma
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1793
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Vespidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Polistes stigma (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 School of Ecology and Conservation <kchandra58 at yahoo.co.in>. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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