. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. k-Bfe WEST INDIAN WASPS. Certain species of wasps are known in the West Indies as Jack Spaniards, and the names wild bee, cow bee, and maribunta are also applied to these insects. fefiT^.^yB-' *' The most common and generally distributed in the Leeward and Windward Islands of these wasps is the one to which the name Jack Spaniard is must usually applied. This is Polities crinitus. It appears to occur throughout the Windward and Leeward Islands, being abundant in most of those islands, but is rare in Rarbados. It bu
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. k-Bfe WEST INDIAN WASPS. Certain species of wasps are known in the West Indies as Jack Spaniards, and the names wild bee, cow bee, and maribunta are also applied to these insects. fefiT^.^yB-' *' The most common and generally distributed in the Leeward and Windward Islands of these wasps is the one to which the name Jack Spaniard is must usually applied. This is Polities crinitus. It appears to occur throughout the Windward and Leeward Islands, being abundant in most of those islands, but is rare in Rarbados. It builds a nest which is attached by a stem at one end, the nest being rather long and narrow. The wild bee in Rarbados is Polistes annularis. It occurs also in St. Vincent and has been introduced into Mont serrat. It is a larger insect than , building a simi- lar nest, attached by a stem at one side. P. annularis is dis- tinguished by the bright-yellow crescent-shaped patch on the base of the abdomen. The cow bee P. hellicosus occurs in Barbados in the West Indies, but it is also recorded in the Southern United States. It is a darker insect than the wild bee and differs from that insect in the nianner of building its nest, which is attached by a stem situated near the middle, instead of at cue side. In Grenada, the maribunta (Polybia occidental'is) is the c imcii wasp. It is a much smaller insect than the three species of Polistes just mentioned. In the Virgin i-lands a wasp very much like the maribunta in size and general appearand' is Megacantht put indeti rminabii. The Jai k Spaniard (Polistes rrinitus) i- the insect which has been mentioned in publications of this Department as /'. fuscatus- instablis. Probably all these wasps arc predaceous in their of feeding, t Jertainly some of them arc, for the three specie- of I'olist. - are will known enemies of many other insects. In St. Vincent, the effect ol the feeding oi Po • ••? % annularis on fchecotton wo
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