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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Hornets, Paper Wasps, Potter Wasps, and Allies
  7. Umbrella Paper Wasps
  8. Fuscatus-group Paper Wasps
  9. Northern Paper Wasp

species 73,956 observations

Northern Paper Wasp

Polistes fuscatus

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

763 native plants
support it in the US
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on Carolina Woollywhite, Purple Meadow-rue, Cup Plant, Sweet Joe-Pye-weed 11
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Flat-topped Goldenrod, Common Wrinkle-leaved Goldenrod, Flat-top White Aster, Common Boneset 751
  • Shelter plants Plants it nests or roosts in Bur Oak 1

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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