Perennial mason wasp
Parancistrocerus perennis
The perennial mason wasp is a wasp from eastern North America. It belongs to the same family as paper wasps and yellowjackets. Mason wasps are named after builders, because many of them make their nests with mud.
Lives in
Eastern North America
What does it eat?
Like other mason wasps, the grown-ups drink nectar from flowers. Mothers catch small caterpillars as food for their young.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Perennial mason 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 belongs to the Vespidae, the same family as paper wasps and yellowjackets.
2
It is also called the two-banded mason wasp.
3
There are two kinds of it, called subspecies.
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Most asked questions about Perennial mason wasp
?Where does the perennial mason wasp live?
In eastern North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parancistrocerus perennis
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Vespidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Two-banded mason wasp
Where the facts come from
- Parancistrocerus perennis (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 Christina Butler from Georgia, United States. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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