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Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Diet: Insects, larvae are feed chewed up insects.
Vegetation Association: Will nest in dead palm tree leaves or under a man-made structure. The queen winters behind tar paper, inside enclosures, or in deep rock cracks. She will build a nest in the spring. She lays an egg in each of the cells that she constructs.
Predators:
Life Stages: Complete Metamorphosis; egg, larvae, pupa, adult.
Notes: Also known as paper wasps. They gather fibers from dried plant stems which they mix with saliva to construct nests that are water-resistant. The nests look like they are made of paper.
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