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A DESCRIPTION OP 
In the above cut are given a representation of first, the 
Queen Bee, placed on the left hand side ; and, on the right 
side of her, tiie Drone ; below them both is represented 
the Working Bee. 
THE WASP (Vespa vulgaris,) 
Is a very fierce, dangerous, and rapacious insect j it is 
much larger than the bee, and furnished with a powerful 
sting. The abdomen is striped with yellow and black. 
All kinds of Wasps make curious nests ; but some attach 
their nest to the beams of a barn or other building, or place 
it in the hollow of alarge tree, but the common Wasp builds 
it in a hole in the ground. Wasps do not construct 
cells with care and accuracy like the Bee ; and as they 
