MISS VESPA’S DAY 
69 
soon as the perfect wasp leaves it 
we clean it out and the queen lays 
another egg in it. This goes on all 
summer long; so you see one nest 
hatches out a great many wasps.” 
“But if you all die in the winter, 
how do you start a new nest?” 
asked the bee. 
“Oh, there are always a few old 
females that are strong enough to 
live through the winter, sleeping the 
cold weather away under cozy heaps 
of bark or in the hollow of a tree^ 
or some place of that kind. When 
the warm days come, the female 
crawls out and goes to work to 
make a nest in the way I have just 
explained. She divides the comb off 
into cells, then puts an egg into 
