Polistes Exclamans!

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   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. )=

Comments

[ashael.livejournal.com]

Oooh nice looking wasps.
Also, the latin name of the species (binomial name) is not to be capitalized. e.g. Homo sapiens and not Homo Sapiens.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

hm. what if its used by itself? (like above, where I've already introduced them by binomial but am continuing to talk about the differences between dominulus and aurifer?)

[ashael.livejournal.com]

lowercase.

[ashael.livejournal.com]

Actually, the right way to write it is P. dominulus. You have to state the first letter of the species name, and you can only do that if you've written the full name earlier.