20 WASPS AND THEIR WAYS 



than bees dependent upon their wits to 

 see them safely through their little span 

 of life. 



Although the solitary wasps are so 

 numerous in species, the social wasps are 

 those best known to literature. 



Like the bees, their strength lies in 

 numbers. 



They make elaborate and wonder- 

 fully ingenious habitations for them- 

 selves, and rear their progeny under 

 the influence of the home. They can 

 thus accomplish results impossible to 

 creatures of solitary habits. 



The social wasps have always been 

 objects of interest, because objects of 

 fear, to man. 



One wasp may be ignored ; not so 

 a thousand wasps. 



They command attention and even 

 prompt and energetic action when 

 circumstances bring men in contact with 

 them. 



