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Yellow-Black striped wasp

 
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:19 pm    Post subject: Yellow-Black striped wasp Reply with quote
Hi, I found this wasp today which looks different from the normal firendly-neighbourhood common paper wasp. Maybe I am wrong but what do you think it is? The narrow abdomen caught my eye.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
congratulations you found a common potter wasp which I think is not common at all.

Eumenes lunulatus.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:58 am    Post subject: 10q Reply with quote
Thanks...

Yes, actually it was something quite new to my unexpert eyes on wasps.
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