It is a Paper wasp.
Scientific name: Polistes sp..
A slender social wasp with a narrow, constricted waist and long, dangling yellow legs. The body is glossy black with bold yellow markings on the face and thorax. The head is rounded-triangular from the front, with large dark compound eyes and a yellow facial mask divided by a darker central stripe. The thorax is compact and black with yellow patches near the shoulders. The wings are translucent amber-brown and folded lengthwise over the back when at rest. The abdomen is elongated and tapering, yellow to ochre with several darker transverse bands, giving it a striped appearance. Overall form is delicate and elongated compared with stockier yellowjackets..
Paper wasps make their nests by chewing weathered wood fibers into a papery pulp, creating open combs rather than enclosed nests like many yellowjackets..
The insect has the classic paper-wasp body plan: a very narrow waist, long legs that hang below the body, amber folded wings, and a black-and-yellow warning pattern. It is less compact than a yellowjacket and does not show the extremely threadlike waist typical of many mud daubers. The visible facial markings, long legs, and banded abdomen fit the genus Polistes well. The image is somewhat blurred and does not show enough detail of the antennae, wing venation, or abdominal pattern to identify the species with confidence, so genus-level identification is safest.
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