Wasp Talk

Is the European Paper Wasp/Polistes dominula the most common wasp in New York City? Sure seems like it.

I see one or two flying low practically everywhere I go.

The orange antenna are the quickest way to separate these from other black and yellow wasps.

Here’s an unusual one. Instead of yellow markings, silverish white ones. A couple of identifiers on iNat didn’t seem too excited, but I’d never seen such a variation before.