{"id":7567,"date":"2019-04-14T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7567"},"modified":"2019-04-17T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:46:38","slug":"polistes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/04\/polistes\/","title":{"rendered":"Polistes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nancy saw a paper wasp beginning to build a nest. We watched it for a few minutes. The nest is still small, with perhaps 16 cells. We saw one adult, who sat quite still on the nest for more than a minute at a time; then she (presumably it was a female) would fly off and return after a minute or so. I wondered if she were working on building the nest; but she was working on the underside of the nest, and the nest was located where we couldn&#8217;t see the underside without disturbing her, we could not confirm my conjecture. I did, however, manage to take two photos with Carol&#8217;s phone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"883\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogApr1419.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogApr1419.jpg 883w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogApr1419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogApr1419-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"883\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogApr1419b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogApr1419b.jpg 883w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogApr1419b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogApr1419b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel fairly confident assigning this individual to <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/572\">genus <em>Polistes<\/em><\/a>, a genus which includes dozens of species of paper wasps. The online &#8220;Bug Guide&#8221; of the University of Iowa&#8217;s Department of Entomology says of genus <em>Polistes<\/em>: &#8220;Predatory on other insects (predominantly caterpillars) to feed larvae.&#8221; Nancy left the nest there so the wasps could serve as a biological control on voracious caterpillars and other herbivorous insects.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy saw a paper wasp beginning to build a nest. We watched it for a few minutes. The nest is still small, with perhaps 16 cells. We saw one adult, who sat quite still on the nest for more than a minute at a time; then she (presumably it was a female) would fly off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/04\/polistes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polistes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-7567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-palo-alto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}