Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . Fig, 99. — Two Eumenes andthe Cells from which they de-veloped. Nature in this larval stage, having eaten all the victims immuredwithin its earthen house ; then it changes to a quiet pupa,which shortly afterward transforms to an adult wasp that gnaws a hole through theside of the house and comesforth to build more houses,and provide for the next gen-eration. Most of the wasps that buildearthen cells for the develop-ment of their young placethem in such shelter that theyare protected from
Nature biographies; the lives of some every-day butterflies; moths; grasshoppers and flies . Fig, 99. — Two Eumenes andthe Cells from which they de-veloped. Nature in this larval stage, having eaten all the victims immuredwithin its earthen house ; then it changes to a quiet pupa,which shortly afterward transforms to an adult wasp that gnaws a hole through theside of the house and comesforth to build more houses,and provide for the next gen-eration. Most of the wasps that buildearthen cells for the develop-ment of their young placethem in such shelter that theyare protected from the this Eumenes, like theother species of the genus,builds habitually in exposedsituations, commonly on plantstems, sometimes on these houses of mud areunaffected by the rain that onewould think might cause themto crumble. If you look at thecell through a lens, you seethat it is composed of a great number of tiny pebbles,mostly quartz, cemented solidly together. We owe much of our knowledge of the habits ofEumenes to the French entomologist, J. H. Fabre, whoseSouvenirs Entomologiqiies have well been called themost interesting and delightful of all ent
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