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Northern Paper Wasps are usually not aggressive unless their nest is threatened. I think this is a male because it has green eyes; females' eyes are red. Also, males cannot sting.

I'm so elegant

Also quite intelligent

Yet not arrogant

 

These wasps are eusocial: "Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality. It is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusociality

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