. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. Fig. 9. other urchin) delights to destroy, regardless of the labor which has been expended in its construction, or of the many lives it contains. They are also the possessors of powerful stings, as many of the said urchins experience and of which I have myself felt the venom on several occasions. The " yellow-jackets " who have a nest hid in a clump of rasp- berries delight to put to flight those who would pluck the fruit of the vines, and the old wasp who has commenced her home in the woodshed is jealous of in
. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. Fig. 9. other urchin) delights to destroy, regardless of the labor which has been expended in its construction, or of the many lives it contains. They are also the possessors of powerful stings, as many of the said urchins experience and of which I have myself felt the venom on several occasions. The " yellow-jackets " who have a nest hid in a clump of rasp- berries delight to put to flight those who would pluck the fruit of the vines, and the old wasp who has commenced her home in the woodshed is jealous of intruders. Vespa maculata, (Fig. 9,) the white-faced wasp, whose colours are black and white, may very frequently be seen on old palings, boards, dead trees, etc., scraping off with its mandibles the fibres of wood, which it carries off to its nest and uses in its construction. The household of the wasp consists in summer of three sorts of individuals (as in the ants) of which the workers, or sterile females, are the most abundant. The colony is not, however, a perennial institution like an ant-hill, but lasts only for one season. It is founded by an impregnated female, which has managed to survive the winter in some protected crevice, and which, revived by the warmth of spring, comes forth to commence her housekeeping. Building a comb of a few cells, she deposits an egg in each, and when the larva? are hatched she feeds them carefully with the juices of flowers and animal matter, or with finely masticated morsels of insects such as flies. These larva? develope finally into workers which assist their mother in enlarging the domicile and in rearing new broods of inmates. The nest grows larger and larger ; new coverings being constructed without, and the inner ones demolished to give room for the new rows of cells which are added to the combs. These combs are placed horizontally, suspended one below the other by columns. The cells are constructed mouth downward so that the larva? h
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