Pictured here is a red paper wasp, one of 22 species of paper wasps known to exist in North America. Paper wasps are so called because they build paper nests. I once observed one carefully cutting ...

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There are two species of red paper wasps in Oklahoma, the fine-backed red paper wasp (Polistes carolina) and the coarse-backed red paper wasp (Polistes rubiginosus). I believe the former is the more ...

Common around household eves and neighborhoods as they are in the woods, the eight species of paper wasps resident in this state are well known to most Oklahomans. The wasps range in color from ...