. 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). 1276 Ri'RAL School Leaflet WASPS Anna Botsford Comstock The wasps and the bees are near relatives; many unobserving persons do not know them apart. The writer had some poHte neighbors once who came to her and told her apologetically that her bees had swarmed into their kitchen and were helping themselves to preserves that were being made. She hasten
. 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). 1276 Ri'RAL School Leaflet WASPS Anna Botsford Comstock The wasps and the bees are near relatives; many unobserving persons do not know them apart. The writer had some poHte neighbors once who came to her and told her apologetically that her bees had swarmed into their kitchen and were helping themselves to preserves that were being made. She hastened to the besieged kitchen and found that the neighbors did not know bees from yellow jackets, for there were only wasps taking toll of preserves in that kitchen. Yet honeybees and yellow jackets are very unlike. The bee is fuzzy and broad-waisted, while the yellow jacket is polished and narrow-waisted. However, the feature by which entomologists always distinguish bees from wasps is the pollen basket \\'ith which the bee is provided on each f^l/T^^^^JUF °^ ^^^ hind legs. Wasps never have these baskets. There are many kinds of wasps. In general they belong to two groups, the solitary and the social. The solitary wasps.— The solitary wasps are so called because each family lives by ^itself; that is, the mother wasp makes a nest for her young in the spring, and only the members of one family grow up together. The mud daubers, the mason wasps, the carpenter wasps, and the digger wasps are all solitary. Their wings when closed lie folded across the back. The mud dauber may be used to illustrate the habits of the soHtary wasps. The female is a black slender creatiire with blue-purple, irides- cent wings, and is very common in New York State. She builds her nest of mud, which she finds in puddles and on muddy roadsides. She collects a pellet of mud in her jaws and by mixing it with saliva changes it to cement. She plasters these soft pellets under the roof boards of some shed or g
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