{"id":6228,"date":"2016-09-23T22:14:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T11:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2016-09-23T22:14:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T11:44:49","slug":"yellow-paper-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=6228","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Paper Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We came across a few of these Yellow Paper Wasps, <em>Polistes olivaceus<\/em>, while in Tonga.<\/p>\n<p>A couple hung around our house, often cruising through the un-shuttered kitchen before heading out into the trees again.<\/p>\n<p>I do wonder how they came to be here. Did they hitch-hike on some vessel or were they blown by the winds from mainland Asia to finally make a home here.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I meet an entomologist I will remember to ask how far flying insects can travel and maybe shed a little light on this one&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Yellow Paper Wasp&#8217; 1\/160 f\/7.1 ISO400 280mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We came across a few of these Yellow Paper Wasps, Polistes olivaceus, while in Tonga. A couple hung around our house, often cruising through the un-shuttered kitchen before heading out into the trees again. I do wonder how they came to be here. Did they hitch-hike on some vessel or were they blown by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[259,1677,82,1675,1676,1678,1641,1674,1679],"class_list":["post-6228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-critters","tag-insects","tag-macro","tag-paperwasp","tag-polistesolivaceu","tag-sting","tag-tonga","tag-wasp","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6230,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions\/6230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}