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Right before I left the hunting spot, I saw a slim insect was spending a little time the wild plant by the river. It was not moving quite a lot, unlike the other day, it was hard to catch. So when seeing it calm, I managed to take some pictures from distance range with my DSLR. After being sometime involving in hide and seek game, I was finally able to get the picture of this beautiful insect. Known as potter wasp (Delta pyriform) a species that is commonly in the bush or in the meadow near the wet area, it stays under subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae.

It appears this wasp gets its name from the paper-like material that it constructs the nest with. It is also recognized as an umbrella wasp, referring to the shape of its nest. In a certain situation, the paper wasp is usually a non-aggressive stinging insect so we don't have to worry about the sting.

The paper wasp or umbrella wasp as you may call is considered nationwide distribution species, making it known better than other wasps. Like other wasps, the paper wasp is semi-social, existing in small colonies but without a true worker caste. The adult paper wasps mostly predators on caterpillars by carrying the prey back to the nest and feeding them to the developing larvae.