Wasps and their ways . oftrees. He also describes the young in thecells, and tells us that in his time thewasps were so harmful to the bees thatthe bee fanciers caught them in pans inwhich they had placed pieces of many had collected in the pan itwas covered and set on the fire. Wasps are still fond of bees and whenable will catch them and carry them asfood to their nests. They are very fondof honey, so no wonder the honey-ladenbee should be a tempting morsel, combin-ing as it does both honey and juicy insectfood. Aristotle accurately describes the queenwasps and the workers. He also
Wasps and their ways . oftrees. He also describes the young in thecells, and tells us that in his time thewasps were so harmful to the bees thatthe bee fanciers caught them in pans inwhich they had placed pieces of many had collected in the pan itwas covered and set on the fire. Wasps are still fond of bees and whenable will catch them and carry them asfood to their nests. They are very fondof honey, so no wonder the honey-ladenbee should be a tempting morsel, combin-ing as it does both honey and juicy insectfood. Aristotle accurately describes the queenwasps and the workers. He also gives aclear and accurate account of nest-making,the rearing of workers first, and later of 130 WASPS AND THEIR WAYS the mother wasps, and he describes theabandonment of the nest at the approachof winter, telling us that only the motherssurvive to start the nest anew next year. Indeed, he gives so good and so accuratean account of the whole history of thewasps, that modern writers have added butlittle new WASP ARCHITECTURE WASPS cling to the traditions of theirancestors in nest-building. Eachspecies has its own inherited ideas on thesubject, and invariably builds in accord-ance with those ideas. But while thenests differ in certain fixed details, in abroad general way they are all alike. Allare made of paper. All contain combsenclosed by separate outer walls. The hornets build smooth andhandsome structures of paper thatcan be peeled off in large sheetsand they generally have but oneentrance hole near the of the yellow-jackets makenests of coarse, friable materials, that breakat the slightest touch. Sometimes sandis found in the paper of which waspsnests are built, and some yellow-jackets lay on their walls, not in large separate 131
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