Comanche paper wasp
The Comanche paper wasp lives in the dry south-west of the United States and in northern Mexico. Like all paper wasps, it builds its nest from a kind of paper it makes itself. It chews up wood and turns it into soft paper.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It was first described in 1857 by a scientist from Switzerland called Henri de Saussure.
The wasps he studied came from a place then called Nuevo México, a huge area that stretched from today's Nevada to Texas.
One local kind of it hides its nest inside a hollow space with only a very small door.
Scientists have not yet checked whether it is in danger.
Most asked questions about Comanche paper wasp
?Where does the Comanche paper wasp live?
From north-western Mexico to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polistes comanchus
- Named by
- Saussure, 1857
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Vespidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Polistes comanchus (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 Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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