Hunter's little paper wasp
Polistes dorsalis
Hunter's little paper wasp is a slim wasp with orange, yellow, brown and black stripes. It has a yellow V shape on its head. It builds a nest out of paper that it makes itself, hidden in quiet places close to the ground.
Lives in
North and Central America, especially the southeastern United States, in fields and gardens
What does it eat?
Like other paper wasps, it catches small insects to feed its young.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Hunter's little 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 is one of the smaller paper wasps.
2
It hides its nest under rocks or inside hollow logs, where enemies cannot easily find it.
3
In each nest the queen is the boss, and the workers have different jobs.
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Most asked questions about Hunter's little paper wasp
?Where does Hunter's little paper wasp build its nest?
In sheltered, hidden places close to the ground, like rock piles and hollow logs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polistes dorsalis
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Vespidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Polistes dorsalis (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 (c) Adrienne van den Beemt, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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