{"id":1000944,"date":"2007-10-27T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/10\/27\/wasp-week-day-6-northern-paper-wasp\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:41:19","slug":"wasp-week-day-6-northern-paper-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/10\/27\/wasp-week-day-6-northern-paper-wasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasp Week Day 6: Northern Paper Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/northernpaperwasp2.JPG' alt='Wasp on leaf' width='634' height='474' \/><br \/>\nNorthern Paper Wasp, <i>Polistes fuscatus<\/i><br \/>\nFloyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, 2007-09-23<\/p>\n<p>Much less aggressive and problematic than the invasive European cousins from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/10\/25\/wasp-week-day-4-european-paper-wasp\/\">Day 4<\/a>. Nonetheless getting too close to a nest would be an incredibly stupid thing to do. Like most social wasps they will defend their nests if disturbed. Otherwise they leave humans well enough alone.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/14227\">BugGuide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirrusimage.com\/Bees_wasp_Polistes_fuscatus.htm\">Cirrus Digital Imaging<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enature.com\/fieldguides\/detail.asp?recnum=IS0163\">eNature<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polistes\">Wikipedia article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/northernpaperwasp.JPG' alt='Brown wasp on leaf' width='640' height='495' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Paper Wasp, Polistes fuscatus Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, 2007-09-23 Much less aggressive and problematic than the invasive European cousins from Day 4. Nonetheless getting too close to a nest would be an incredibly stupid thing to do. Like most social wasps they will defend their nests if disturbed. Otherwise they leave humans well enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,41],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-bugs","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}