What do you think?
a European paper wasp...appears to be a young queen building a new nest ...the nest is still small only having 5 cells yet to be filled....she is a little less than 3/4 of an inch long and quite slender through the abdomen (where I'm drawing the assumption of her being quite young)
Wasps of the cosmopolitan genus Polistes (the only genus in the tribe Polistini) are the most familiar of the polistine wasps, and are the most common type of paper wasp. It is also the single largest genus within the family Vespidae, with over 300 recognized species and subspecies. Their innate preferences for nest-building sites leads them to commonly build nests on human habitation, where they can be very unwelcome; although generally non-aggressive, they can be provoked...
