TAKING NESTS 



WHOEVER aspires to owning a family 

 of tame hornets should begin 

 operations early in the season, 

 when the little ball-like nest 

 can be easily and safely taken 

 after nightfall, with the queen 

 at home. The wasps will 

 not desert the nest so long 

 as the queen is not lost. If not frightened 

 or hurt they soon make friends with their 

 captor. 



As few people, however, will have the 

 opportunity, or inclination, to capture a 

 nest of live wasps and manipulate it so as 

 to see what is going on inside, a better 

 way to satisfy one's craving for a knowl- 

 edge of wasps, is to wait until about the 

 middle of September, then, having found 

 a yellow-jacket's nest in a convenient 

 location (on the eaves of a building is 



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