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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



IN JUNE THE INSIDE OF A HORNETS' NEST, SEEN THROUGH A WINDOWPANE 



hite sac holds a pupa that will soon emerge as a full-grown white-faced hornet 



Each tin\' w 

 (Flate V, upper). The striped face of the queen peers out above the brood 

 two pictures indicate the same point to show the growth of the nest. 



The arrows in the 



riintncraplis b.v Edwin L. Wisherd 

 IN AUGUST— THE SAME NEST, GRt:.4TLV EXP.ANDED BUT DESERTED 



nnl^ir^VIl" "k"" T ';''■-' f""* r^'^-' ^°'' •*' ''"'""^" approaches, the mother ceases egg-laving 

 and all of the hornets abandon the nest. The workers and males die during the winter but' the 

 females survive by hKlmg undcT stones or thick tree bark. Each founds a new colonv in the spring 

 This hornet community flourished on the window of a Maryland house (opposite page) 



