Paper Wasp

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Ropalidia fasciata	April 28, 2026	Purulia, Natore, Bangladesh

On 28/04/2026, while walking, an insect suddenly caught my eye. I looked closely and saw that it was a wasp! It was sitting very calmly on a leaf.
When I saw the wasp, I first thought it was going to sting me. So at first I was afraid to get close to take a picture. But when I saw that it was not moving! Then I took a little courage and took a picture from a very close distance.

After taking the picture, I zoomed in on the screen and saw that its body color was beautiful. It is reddish-brown in color and has a beautiful yellow ring near the abdomen. There is also a yellow spot on the back. From a distance, the naked eye cannot make out so many details. The insect looked quite beautiful in the sunlight.

Later, I searched on Google and i-Naturalist and found that in English they are called Paper Wasp. The most interesting thing is that they chew tree branches and mix them with saliva to make a nest that looks like paper. And although they look scary, they do us a lot of good by eating other harmful insects in the garden.

Anyway, let me know what you think of these pictures of Paper Wasps.

(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)

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Camera Model	Samsung SM-G973F
Aperture	F2.4
ISO Speed	ISO
Shutter Speed	1/120 s
Photography	Paper Wasp (Ropalidia fasciata)
Photographer	@mshbd

Observation Link
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/356624745

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3369	89.1158	https://www.openstreetmap.org/?#map=12/24.3369/89.1158