. St. Nicholas [serial]. WREN-WASP (ODYNERrS) BRINGING A CATERPILLARTO ITS NEST IN A SPOOL. Some of the caterpillars are crawling out of the overturned the wasp had not stung them sufficiently to make them in-active. The figure below at left is a spool, split lengthwise to show thewren-wasps nest within and the wasp larva feeding on the storedcaterpillars. The figure below at right shows the newly transformed waspemerging from the cocoon where the pupa was incased, and push-ing its way out of the A SOLITARY DIGGER-WASP (AMMOPHILA URNAR1A). Using a stone to pound down the e
. St. Nicholas [serial]. WREN-WASP (ODYNERrS) BRINGING A CATERPILLARTO ITS NEST IN A SPOOL. Some of the caterpillars are crawling out of the overturned the wasp had not stung them sufficiently to make them in-active. The figure below at left is a spool, split lengthwise to show thewren-wasps nest within and the wasp larva feeding on the storedcaterpillars. The figure below at right shows the newly transformed waspemerging from the cocoon where the pupa was incased, and push-ing its way out of the A SOLITARY DIGGER-WASP (AMMOPHILA URNAR1A). Using a stone to pound down the earth over its filled and finished nest or burrow. (Illustration by permission of Professor George W. Peckham.) the top of which was sealed with mud, and which alsocontained worms. Yours very truly, Harriet M. Greenleaf. The solitary wasps store their nests with avariety of foods for their young; spiders, flies,and caterpillars are, however, the most commonvictims. It was probably the little wren-wasp,Odynerus flavipes, that built in the spool. Itoften chooses such places for its nest, as wellas nail-holes, key-holes, worm-holes in wood,bottle-necks, and one naturalist tells us that apistol-barrel has even been selected for thepurpose. From this habit of nesting in holesit has received the name of wren-wasp. Adultwasps feed on vegetable sweets, as flower pol-len and ripe fruit, on honeydew, and on manysmall insects, such as flies, gnats, leaf-hoppers,etc. The caterpillars that Odynerus stores areentirely for t
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