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2 unusual facts about Paper wasp


Paper wasp

Recent researches conducted by scientists of University of Granada, and University of Almeria, shown that the size of the body and color intensity of the body can be used as a measurement to find out the amount of toxic ability of each Paper Wasp.

"Faces are extremely important to species such as humans", said the study coauthor Michael Sheehan, a Ph.D. candidate at the university.



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Jeremy Field

The organisms which his team works on most are wasp and bee species Halictus, the hover wasp, and Polistes, the paper wasp.

P. humilis

Polistes humilis, the common paper wasp, a wasp species found throughout Australia