Sighting 4209076
Polistes (Polistella) humilis
Common Paper Wasp at Tura Beach, NSW
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| Polistes (Polistella) humilis | KimPullen | 15 May 2019 | |
| Unverified | Steff | 15 May 2019 |
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These wasps have made a nest on the brick wall under a window sill. The nest looks like a grey and black beehive about the size of a cricket ball.
Should I be concerned about them?
2 comments
16 May 2019
Thank you for your help! The nest is under a second story window frame so they are fine where they are, I don't think we need to mess about with their house.
I'm interested in the different nest shape you describe, these ones have made a shape like a ball smooshed onto the bricks with kind of honeycomb like chambers. I can't get a photo because it's too high up and the zoom on my phone is rubbish!
I'm interested in the different nest shape you describe, these ones have made a shape like a ball smooshed onto the bricks with kind of honeycomb like chambers. I can't get a photo because it's too high up and the zoom on my phone is rubbish!
17 May 2019
Those links are really cool, thank you!
I have had another look at the nest and I think the way the wasps have built it , kind of wedged up under the window sill, makes it look kind of like a ball of playdo squashed under the sill. I'm guessing the anchor stalk is hidden from view and the shape is like the second link image.
Thanks again for your information.
I have had another look at the nest and I think the way the wasps have built it , kind of wedged up under the window sill, makes it look kind of like a ball of playdo squashed under the sill. I'm guessing the anchor stalk is hidden from view and the shape is like the second link image.
Thanks again for your information.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.922984-36.868062
- Places Tura Beach, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 15 May 2019 11:49 AM Recorded on
- Steff Recorded by
Collections
- Steff South Coast NatureMapr Polistes (Polistella) humilis Social or paper-nest wasps (Vespidae, Polistinae & Vespinae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects
Species information
- Polistes (Polistella) humilis Scientific name
- Common Paper Wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 3648.9m Recorded at altitude
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