Sighting 4700584
Unidentified paper wasp at Moruya, NSW
Identification history
| Polistes sp. (genus) | 1 Oct 2025 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Polistes (Polistella) humilis | 30 Sep 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Polistes (Polistella) humilis | 30 Sep 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 29 Sep 2025 | LisaH |
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User's notes
Many wasp nests - only on blue pieces of tin or insulation, not on green or just tin. Fascinated to discover, looking at the photos, that each cell in this nest contains a small egg!
3 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
30 Sep 2025
These are female wasps, laying eggs for new young to add to the growth of the colony.
LisaH
wrote:
30 Sep 2025
Amazing - and the nests are incredible structures, so precise and mathematical
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
30 Sep 2025
Lisa, see the Friends of Grasslands newsletter, November 2023, page 6 :- https://www.fog.org.au/Newsletters/2023-11newsletter.pdf
Location information
- Places Moruya, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- LisaH Recorded by
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Collections
LisaH NatureMapr South Coast Polistes sp. (genus) Social or paper-nest wasps (Vespidae, Polistinae & Vespinae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- True Nest present
Species information
- Polistes sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Unidentified paper wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 794.8m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes