. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 43 2 Handbook of Nature-Study 6. Describe the mud-dauber wasp. How large is she? What is the color of her body ? Of her wings ? How many wings has she ? How are her wings folded differently from those of the yellow-jacket? Describe her eyes; her antennas; her legs; her waist; her abdomen. 7. Where did you find the wasp? How did she act? Do you think that she can sting? How does she pass the winter? 8. Do you the mud wasps which build the little, jug-shaped nests for their young
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 43 2 Handbook of Nature-Study 6. Describe the mud-dauber wasp. How large is she? What is the color of her body ? Of her wings ? How many wings has she ? How are her wings folded differently from those of the yellow-jacket? Describe her eyes; her antennas; her legs; her waist; her abdomen. 7. Where did you find the wasp? How did she act? Do you think that she can sting? How does she pass the winter? 8. Do you the mud wasps which build the little, jug-shaped nests for their young? Do you know the mud wasps which utilize crevices and keyholes for their nests and plaster up the opening? g. Do you know about the digger wasps which pack away grasshop- pers or caterpillars in a hole in the ground, in which they lay their egg and then cover it? Supplementary reading—Insect Stories, Kellogg; Wasps, Social and Solitary, Peckham; Wasps and their Ways, Morley; The Ways of the Six- footed, Comstock; Home Studies in Nature, THE YELLOW-JACKET Teacher's Story ^ANY wasps are not so waspish after all when we under- stand one important fact about them; i. e., although they are very nervous themselves, they detest that quality in others. For years the yellow-jackets have shared with us our meals at our summer camp on the lake shore. They inake inquisitive tours of inspection over the viands on the table, often seeming to include ourselves, and coming so near that they fan our faces with their wings. They usually end by selecting the sweetened fruits, but they also carry off bits of roast beef, pouncing down upon the meat platter and seizing a tidbit as a hawk does a chicken. We always remain calm during these visitations, for we know that unless we inadvertently pinch one, we shall not be harmed; and it is great fun to watch one of these graceful creatures poising daintily on the side of the dish lapping up the fruit juice as a cat does milk, the slender, ycUo
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