THE WASP AS FOOD PROVIDER. 



The srubs in the combs of the Social Wasps reniiire to be as constantly fed as do nnfled;;ed birds. To meet the 

 enormous demands made upon them for fresh food, the worker wasps wntie an unceasing war upon other insects, and 

 during one season many thousands are destroyed to afford food for a sinjjie nest. In this picture the wasps have found 

 a community of caterpillars of the small tortoise-shell butterfly crawling! upon their tents and the nettle leaves. Those 

 not too large will be hauled to the nest intact, but those too heavy for carriasie will be cut up and taken away piecemeal. 



