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TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 





FIG. 137. — NEST OF THE RINGED OK KUST-KED WASP (POLISTES 

 ANNULATUS.) 



tree I counted thirteen nests, and I am quite sure that 

 more were hidden among the leaves. Every tree is 

 occupied, and several nests are hung upon the black- 

 berry vines that skirt the fence close by the wall. 

 Thus, while some of the wasps swing their domiciles 

 far aloft, fifty or sixty feet above ground, others 

 choose sites nearer terra firma. This indifterence as 

 to location is more or less evident among those who, 

 like the famous Swiss Kobinsons, build their liouses 

 in trees, for the nests are scattered indifterently 

 throughout the branches, one of the largest which I 

 have seen being pendant from a limb tliat bends (\u\iv 



