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lejun | all galleries >> Other Insects >> Bees, Flies, Wasps, Midges and Related Species >> Vespid Wasps > Red Paper Wasp parasitizing a moth caterpillar
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02-JUL-2015 Lejun

Red Paper Wasp parasitizing a moth caterpillar

Copyright © Lewis Scharpf

Red Paper Wasp (Polistes carolina or rubiginosus)
attacking what appears to be an Armyworm caterpillar (genus Spodoptera)
Auburn, Alabama
The two species of the Red Paper Wasp can be distinguished only under a microscope.
See:
www.bugguide.net/node/view/252342

Nikon COOLPIX S8200
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