WASP LAYING AN EGG 



The common paper wasp (Polistes) builds its comb under the eaves of buildings, and is a familiar 

 object in most parts of the United States. The nest is started in the spring by a smgle 

 female, who was fertiUzed in the preceding autumn, and lived through the winter in some 

 sheltered crack. After she has built a few cells of paper she has made by chewmg up 

 old wood, she lays eggs in them from which functionless females or neuters hatch out. 

 Photograph by Brown and Dawson. (Fig. 21.) 



