Disc-nest Wasp - Ropalidia gregaria

FAMILY VESPIDAE

This page contains pictures and information about the Disc-nest  Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 10mm 

We find this Papernest Wasps nest on road side hanging from a small tree about 1.5 meters above ground. The nest is flat in one layer. 

 

  

 

The wasps are brown in colour with yellow rectangular patterns on thorax, with two segments of  yellow band on abdomen. Notice that some nest cells are empty, some are with larvae or pupa inside.

 

 

They build disk shape paper nest hanging on low plants. The nest is up to 30cm in diameter.  

 

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We found their nests a few times, all were located within tens of meters near a creek. Above two pictures were taken on April 2007.

 

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Last updated: January 19, 2010.