Caption

Single house wasp (Polistes dominula), also called European Paper Wasp or French wasp (formerly Polistes gallicus) guards a hole in a sunny metal wall where the nest is located, wasp nest, guard, guardian, sitting, squatting, wrinkle wasp, nest building, sunny, warm, summer, district of Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date

May 08, 2016

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Carola Vahldiek

Reference

BRK26B74_414

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

37.6Mb (1.6Mb) / 15.0in x 9.7in / 4500 x 2917 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted hole warm wall breeding Insect Vespinae nest-building nest animal behaviour animal Lower Saxony Northern Germany German wildlife sit Europe Hymenoptera crouch nesting site french sunny guard summer european North German social behaviour breeding ground former summery Germany metal wall vespiary breeding season parental care wildlife photography Lüneburg wasp Apocrita natural environment European Paper Wasp Central Europe social wasp individual County Polistes Polistes gallicus no one building a nest North Germany fauna squat nesting place guardian social behavior breeding area German Federal Republic wasps' nest breeding time Lueneburg habitat European paper wasp Middle Europe single district No People building nest perch breeding site Republic of Germany wasp nest natural habitat French field wasps scattered nobody breeding place FRG lone uninhabited empty holes walls breedings Insects Wasps nests animals sitting crouching nesting sites guards nesting social behaviours breeding grounds formerly metal walls vespiaries wasps natural environments European Paper Wasps social wasps squatting guardians breeding areas Wasp's nest European paper wasps perching breeding sites breeding places BRD animal behavior sits seated perched Europe's crouches guarding Northern German squats perchs