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Last of all, as the really cold weather bej^iiis to 

 set ill, the cpieeti wasp lays some other ej^j^s from 

 which a small brood of males is tiiiallv developed. 

 Nobody in the nest sets much store by these males : 

 they are necessary evils, no more, so the wasps put 

 up with them. It is humiliating to my se.x, but 1 



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NO. 6. — NKSlS l)K IkKKWA^P, F.MKKIdK ANIi INIKklOR. 



cannot avoid mentioninj^ the fact, that the produc- 

 tion of males seems evt-n to be a direct result of 

 chill and unfavourable conditions. The best food 

 and the bi«^<.fest cells produce fertile cpieens ; the 

 second best food and smaller cells produce workers ; 

 finallv, tile enfecblement due to approaching winter 



