16 WASPS AND THEIR WAYS 



From this page we learn that bees and 

 wasps differ but very slightly from each 

 other. 



Indeed a novice might find it hard to 

 decide between certain insects, as to 

 whether they were bees or wasps, were 

 it not that bees being pollen-gatherers, 

 have provided themselves with imple- 

 ments for pollen-gathering; they are pe- 

 culiarly hairy, while wasps, to whom 

 collecting hairs would be a waste of pro- 

 toplasm, have not clothed themselves with 

 a pollen-collecting coat. 



They have no hair-baskets on their legs 

 and no brushes on legs or body for 

 collecting pollen. 



They are longer and more slender than 

 bees, as a rule, and generally they wear a 

 livery unlike that of the bees. Some of 

 them have tongues for honey-gathering 

 vying in length with the serviceable organ 

 of the bee, and some of them, in tropical 



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