Yellow oriental paper wasp
Polistes olivaceus
The yellow oriental paper wasp is a slim yellow wasp. Like other paper wasps, it builds its nest from paper that it makes by chewing wood. It comes from India and East Asia but has travelled to many islands.
Lives in
India and East Asia, and now also East Africa, the Seychelles, Hawaii and other Pacific islands
What does it eat?
Paper wasps drink sweet nectar and catch caterpillars and other insects to feed their young.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Yellow oriental 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
It has been carried to faraway islands like Hawaii, Easter Island and the Cook Islands.
2
In the Cook Islands people call it "Rango Patia" in their own language.
3
Its nest is made of paper that the wasps make themselves from chewed-up wood.
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Most asked questions about Yellow oriental paper wasp
?Where does the yellow oriental paper wasp live?
It comes from India and East Asia and now also lives in East Africa and on many Pacific islands.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polistes olivaceus
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Vespidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Macao paper wasp, Yellow paper wasp
Where the facts come from
- Polistes olivaceus (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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