Polistes Exclamans!

   Introducing... Polistes Exclamans!! What appears to be a new addition to our local wasp population of Polistes Aurifers and Polistes Dominulus's. Their most prominant difference is that they're about half the size of the latter two species (at 1.5cm of length on average) and have two thick brown bands (as opposed to Dominulus' black bands and Aurifer's brown triangles).


   In other news, I forget if I mentioned it before but bumblebees (the only local native bees) are getting extremely rare in this area. )=

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Finally, after an unusually dry year, RAIN!

Also, see if you can spot the airplane. (=