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NEST OF A MUD WASP 



What a Wasp is like. — Wasps pass the winter sleeping in 

 sheltered places. In late fall or early spring you may often 



see them on sunny 

 windows in the attic 

 or barn. Has a 

 wasp the same num- 

 ber of wings as a 

 house fly? Has it 

 the same number of 

 legs ? Has its body 

 the same divisions ? 

 You may know 

 the common mud- 

 building wasp by its 

 long slender waist. 

 Kinds of Wasps. 

 — There are many 

 kinds of mud-build- 

 ing wasps. One kind 

 makes a nest like a 

 jug about as large 

 as the end of your 

 little finger. These 

 nests are usually 

 fastened to twigs of 

 trees, or to the stalks 

 of golden-rods. In 

 each nest the mother 

 wasp lays a single egg and then fills the nest with live cater- 

 pillars which will furnish food for the grub that hatches from 

 the egg. 



Another kind of wasp that builds on twigs and plant stems 



makes a nest about the size and shape of a hen's egg.. The 



cells look like pencil holes drilled irregularly through the nest. 



Another kind of wasp makes long holes in small sumac and 



Wasp's Nest on an Apple Leaf 



