IN THE BUNGALOW. 



roo all are serviceable sites to build in. 

 ' Some of these wasps ( ' Eumenes ) make 

 little rounded cells of clay for their 

 nests, placing caterpillars inside them. 

 The cell being made, the female wasp 

 repairs to the garden and searches our 

 flower beds or vegetable garden for a 

 succulent green caterpillar. Alighting 

 gently upon him when found, she stings 

 the grub on the nerve cord and thus 

 paralyses him. Seizing the caterpillar 

 between her legs the wasp then conveys 

 him to the cell and places him in it ; others 

 are placed alongside, an egg laid near by 

 and the cell closed. Paralysing the cater- 

 pillars in this manner keeps them alive 

 and ensures that the store of food thus 

 provided for the grub which will emerge 

 from the egg shall remain sweet and good 

 and not decompose too soon. This pro- 

 vision of food enables the grub to reach 

 full size, when it changes into a nymph 

 and the latter into a wasp resembling 

 its parent ; the former then eats a hole 



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