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01-SEP-2009

Golden Paper Wasp, Polistes aurifer

Hymenoptera have four wings, like most other orders of insects except for the Diptera (flies); however, their wings
are special in that the fore- and hind-wings are fused into what is essentially a single wing. From above, they often
look as if they have only two wings; this shot shows the separate bases at the second and third thoracic segments.


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