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Close up showing the blue eyes of a paper wasp.

 Image Number D4992-1

A fluorescent stereomicroscope image shows the amazing color of the compound eyes of a common paper wasp, Polistes exclamans, found in Maryland.

 

Photo by Gary Bauchan

 

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