{"id":1585,"date":"2016-09-23T02:20:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1585-yellow-paper-wasp.html"},"modified":"2016-09-23T02:20:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:50:34","slug":"yellow-paper-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1585-yellow-paper-wasp.html","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Paper Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2198 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1413-_MG_0540.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe came across a few of these Yellow Paper Wasps, <em>Polistes olivaceus<\/em>, while in Tonga.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA couple hung around our house, often cruising through the un-shuttered kitchen before heading out into the trees again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNext time I meet an entomologist I will remember to ask how far flying insects can travel and maybe shed a little light this one&#8217;s story.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Yellow Paper Wasp&#8217; 1\/160 f\/7.1 ISO400 280mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Yellow Paper Wasp\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1585-yellow-paper-wasp.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Yellow Paper Wasp\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}