52 WASPS AND THEIR WAYS 



but flowers like those of a huckleberry, 

 though larger. 



Indeed these flowers are just large 

 enough to allow the hungry Vespa to get 

 her head into the nectar stored at the bot- 

 tom of the little flower urn. 



The Menzesia grows in the Alleghany 

 Mountains, and one lovely mountain top 

 in Virginia in the spring is covered with 

 beautiful bushes of it, every flower 

 cluster having its little band of wasp 

 votaries. 



The pretty snowberry blossoms that 

 make charming the northern mountains 

 are also wasp flowers. This dainty little 

 plant creeps over mossy banks, and in May 

 and June puts forth the small white 

 flowers that are succeeded by snowy ber- 

 ries having a flavour of birch. 



The pretty bell-shaped blossoms are of 

 the right size to accommodate the head of 

 Vespa, and she has the good taste to be 

 fond of snowberry honey. 



