Paper Wasp Nest (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Paper Wasp Nest

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A female paper wasp (Polistes metricus) on her recently founded nest, in this case constructed in the laboratory from source materials in University of Illinois school colors. The first of her daughters will emerge as a worker from the cocoon at lower right, and then the foundress will become queen of the developing wasp society.

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Photo by J. H. Hunt and A. L. Toth

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