WASPS AM' 



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in gravelly walks, and have the instin< sting gi 



hoppers in oneof the thoracic a 

 the victim, in which the wasp 

 laya h< i the young hatch- 



ing, feed npon the liviug but 

 paralyzed grasshoppers, the 

 Btore of li\ ing food nol being 

 exhausted until the larval wasp 



ready to Btop eating and 

 finish its transformations. 



The genuine paper-making 



-ps are numerous in Bpec 

 here the workers are wing 

 and differ from the females or 

 queens in being rather smaller. 

 Odynerus builds cells of mud. 

 The genuine paper-making 

 wasps, Buch as Vespa, build 

 several tiers of cells, arran^ 

 mouth downward, and envel- 

 oped by a wall of several thick- 

 nessesof paper. In the 1 esp<B, 

 the females found the colony, 

 and raise a brood of work 

 which early in the summer 

 ass - the queen in completing 



tile nest. 



The bees also present a grad- 

 ual Beries from those which 

 are solitary, living in holes in 



the earth, like the ants ( 1 

 \',:\). and forming silk-lined 

 irthen >ns, to those fi 



"! ground : a, Hi 

 whieh are soeial. with winj tali 



-...,._. . len mass will) an eeg laid on 



workers, slightly differing from pollen mass tree i by 



the queens. The queen hum- 

 ble-bee hibernates, and in the spring founds her colony by 



