130 WASPS AND THEIR WAYS 



the mother wasps, and he describes the 

 abandonment of the nest at the approach 

 of winter, telling us that only the mothers 

 survive to start the nest anew next year. 



Indeed, he gives so good and so accurate 

 an account of the whole history of the 

 wasps, that modern writers have added but 

 little new information. 



