Apache Paper Wasp vs Bicolored Pennant Ant

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute Apache Paper Wasp Bicolored Pennant Ant
Scientific Name Polistes apachus Tetraponera rufonigra
Order Hymenoptera Hymenoptera
Family Vespidae Formicidae
Size 18-25 mm 6-10 mm
Habitat Heathland Forests
Diet Nectar Feeders Nectar Feeders
Regions Southwestern United States and northern Mexico India, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka
Conservation Least Concern Least Concern

Apache Paper Wasp

A large paper wasp of the American Southwest with yellow and reddish-brown coloring. It constructs open paper comb nests in sheltered locations like building overhangs.

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Did You Know?

It is one of the largest paper wasps in North America and is particularly common around desert homes and ranch buildings.

Bicolored Pennant Ant

A large, slender arboreal ant with a painful sting found across tropical Asia. Workers are bicolored with an orange head and thorax and a black gaster. They nest in hollow twigs and bamboo stems and are agile jumpers.

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Did You Know?

Their sting is notoriously painful and is compared to a wasp sting, unusual for such a slender ant.