10 WASPS AND THEIR WAYS 



In the youth of their race the efforts of 

 the hymenopterous insects were directed 

 toward the accomplishment of certain acts 

 that others of the insect folk did not care 

 to perform. 



The consequence of desires that pro- 

 gressed as they were gratified, aided by 

 environment, was the gradual develop- 

 ment of the general characteristics of the 

 hymenopteran Order. 



Again, in the early ancestral history 

 of this Order, each division of it worked 

 in a certain direction, pushed along by 

 a combination of internal and external 

 forces that finally resulted in the well- 

 defined divisions of Bees, Ants, Wasps, 

 etc., with characteristics more or less 

 fixed. The wasps acquired the wasp 

 form and the wasp nature. Their 

 habits were wasp habits. The bees 

 forsook uncertain lines of conduct and 

 settled into indisputable beedom. The 

 ants drew lines fast and firm about 



