Elementary studies in insect life Elementary studies in insect life elementarystudie00hunt Year: 1902 ELEMENTARY STUDIES IN INSECT LIFE FIG. 54. A mud-dauber (Pelopceus cemen- tarius). XI1-- mud-daubers' homes pasted to the under side of your porches, around the barns, and not infrequently un- der the bridges of the highway. If you will break open one of these nests you will find, if the time is right, the developing form surrounded by spiders in a comatose condition; or if perchance the regular occupant is gone you will find the remnants of these same spiders in this little adobe structur
Elementary studies in insect life Elementary studies in insect life elementarystudie00hunt Year: 1902 ELEMENTARY STUDIES IN INSECT LIFE FIG. 54. A mud-dauber (Pelopceus cemen- tarius). XI1-- mud-daubers' homes pasted to the under side of your porches, around the barns, and not infrequently un- der the bridges of the highway. If you will break open one of these nests you will find, if the time is right, the developing form surrounded by spiders in a comatose condition; or if perchance the regular occupant is gone you will find the remnants of these same spiders in this little adobe structure. The strength and prowess frequently displayed by these solitary wasps in securing their prey is often re- markable. They will frequently enter dark hay-mows and old garrets in quest of spiders for their young. The writer on one occasion observed one of these at- tempt to drag a good-sized ground-spider up the side of a church to a knot-hole in the weather-boards, where the wasp was constructing a nest. Laboriously and yet steadily did it go diagonally up the building, moving backward with its mandibles fastened in its load, until it reached an elevation of about three feet, when, its strength giving out, the wasp, spider and all fell to the ground. This operation was repeated three times be- fore darkness interfered with the insect's work for that day. When these female wasps are ready to deposit their
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