. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Leaflet 11S7 creatures, until it has devoured all the spider meat so miraculously preserved for its use. It then changes to a pupa, and later changes to a wasp and gnaws its way out into the world. The mason wasps build jug-shaped nests fastened to twigs, and pro- vision them with caterpillars. The digger wasps make holes in the ground
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Leaflet 11S7 creatures, until it has devoured all the spider meat so miraculously preserved for its use. It then changes to a pupa, and later changes to a wasp and gnaws its way out into the world. The mason wasps build jug-shaped nests fastened to twigs, and pro- vision them with caterpillars. The digger wasps make holes in the ground for their nests and provision them with caterpillars or grasshoppers. The carpenter wasps excavate tunnels in dead wood or in the pith of shrubs and use various insects for the food of their young. There are many Solitary wasps that use any cavity which they happen to find already made, but they all have this peculiar way of preserving the insect meat fresh for the food of their young. The sting of the Solitary wasps gives little pain to us and is very different from the sting of a yellow-jacket. The Social wasps also are made up of many species and include those known kA. as yellow-jackets and hornets — a large species being the white-faced black hornet, much feared even by brave boys. The Social wasps fold their wings pecul- iarly: each wing is folded lengthwise, like a fan, and extends down on each side of the body when at rest, instead of being closed above the back as is the case with the Solitary wasps and the bees. The story of the yellow-jacket will illustrate the habits of all the Social wasps. The queen mother survives the winter in some protected place, and in the spring builds a little nest of paper. She bites off bits of wood and chews them into a pulp, and with this material she makes several cells and surrounds them with a protecting envelope. She lays an egg in each cell; these eggs hatch into little white grubs, which she feeds dutifully at first with partial
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