Natural history of animals; . etreat. Each female that sur-vives the cold founds a new colony in the spring, build-ing a few cells and laying her eggs, from which arehatched only workers. These assist the parent, and atlength, in autumn, three generations have been pro-duced, the last composed of males and females, and thenest has grown from a few cells to one containingthousands. The Hornet is one of the largest of theWasps, and was brought to this country from kinds of Wasps build open nests of a fewcells, and attach them to some object by a short kinds build their nes
Natural history of animals; . etreat. Each female that sur-vives the cold founds a new colony in the spring, build-ing a few cells and laying her eggs, from which arehatched only workers. These assist the parent, and atlength, in autumn, three generations have been pro-duced, the last composed of males and females, and thenest has grown from a few cells to one containingthousands. The Hornet is one of the largest of theWasps, and was brought to this country from kinds of Wasps build open nests of a fewcells, and attach them to some object by a short kinds build their nests of mud, and store themwith insects for the food of the larvae ; these are theMud Wasps. They have the hind body joined to thethorax by a long stem or pedicel, and their color isshining blue, or black, or black and orange, or brownand red. One of the black and orange Mud Waspsbuilt two beautiful mud cells in the corner of myroom. She worked very industriously and rapidly,building a cell in a few hours. Flying in at the open. 148 ARTHROPODS:* INSECTS. window, with a ball of mud in her mouth, she movedquickly around the room, then flew up to the spotwhere she was building, and de-positing her mud, shaped it withher jaws with all the care andregularity of a perfect day after she finished thefirst cell, she filled it with spidersand sealed it over with mud. OnFig. 258.— Mud Wasps opening it to examine the insectsnest- stored within, quite a large hole was accidentally made ; this she very soon discovered,and began to repair it, and in about five minutes shehad completely closed it. The second cell was soonsealed like the first. Fig. 258 shows them, as theyappeared before the second was filled with spiders andclosed. Ants. Ants live together in colonies, which are often verylarge, and made up of males, females, and workers have no wings, but the males and femaleshave wings, and the females have the power of throw-ing them off. Some kinds of Ants make their
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