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Paper wasps, Polistes sp.

The Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps (solitary and social, paper wasps) & saw flies) is an order in the phylum uniramia, arthropoda or insecta according to which book you read.

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Uniramia
--Centipedes
--Hexapoda 1 (insects)
--Hexapoda 2 (insects)
--Hexapoda 3 (insects)
--Identification to order level
--Insect orders
----Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths)
----Ephemeroptera (mayflies)
----Hemiptera (bugs, cicadas)
----Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps & saw flies)
------Bumblebees
----Coleoptera (beetles)
----Dictyoptera (mantids, cockroaches)
----Diptera (true flies)
----Neuroptera (lacewings, ant lions)
----Orthoptera (crickets, locusts)
----Thysanura (bristletails, silver fish)
----Strepsiptera (stylops)
----Thysanoptera (thrips)
----Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies)
----Trichoptera (caddis flies)
----Siphonaptera (fleas)
----Isoptera (termites)
----Phasmida (stick & leaf insects)
----Dermaptera (earwigs)
----Anoplura/siphunculata (sucking lice)
----Mallophaga (biting lice, bird lice)
----Psocoptera (book, bark, dust lice)
----Mecoptera (scorpion flies)
----Collembola (springtail)
----Embioptera (web spinners)
----Plecoptera (stone flies)
----Diplura (bristletails)
----Protura
----Zoraptera

Paper wasps, Polistes sp.

On the left is an old nest of a Polistese sp. wasp. These wasps are known as paper wasps and usually have fairly small nests in sheltered locations. This one was on the inside of a window shutter, so it would have been in the dark.

Polistes wasp, paper wasp nest

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