COMMON WASP. 403 
rity, break out of their confinement, and begin to 
work with the mother insect. In about fifteen 
days the last brood add to the number. Thus is the 
community daily increasing, till the young ones be- 
come breeders in their turn ; and in this manner is 
a whole swarm raised before the month of July, 
consisting of nine or ten thousand wasps. 
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