On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:30:26 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

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I realized, while out among the daylilies today, that I had the prefect
resource - a fellow daylily nut that has a Ph.D in bugs! I'm going to try
and take a few pictures in the AM and mail them off to him.

Here is another site that has pretty decent photos:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/384/bgimage?from=0

maybe this one in particular (Species Polistes fuscatus -
Northern Paper Wasp):

http://bugguide.net/node/view/14227/bgimage

This website has a better description for same:

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.ed..._fuscatus.html

There are quite a few entries in the Genus Polistes. See:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/572/tree

Not all of the Paper Wasps are particularly aggressive.

The purported "yellow-jackets" are a numerous Genus too. See
some of the possibilities he

http://bugguide.net/node/view/554/tree

Hopefully this will give you a better idea of why a picture
of the nest and detail of a specimen would be helpful

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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