WHITE-FACED HORNETS 



some of the workers began to lay eggs, 

 and if the old proverb that " Like pro- 

 duces like " holds good they still deserve 

 the masculine pronoun, for these eggs 

 produced only males. 



At the same time the queen began to 

 lay eggs which were destined to produce 

 other queens. How all this could have 

 been known about beforehand it is hard 

 to tell, but such must have been the fact, 

 for the cells in which these eggs were to 

 be laid were made larger than the others 

 as the greater size of males and females 

 requires. 



Thus the climax of the work of the 

 great paper hive was reached. The new 

 queens had been safely reared and had 

 reached maturity when the first chill days 

 of autumn came. These days brought 

 rain, and the change from bustling life 

 to silence was most startling. Almost in 



