Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . ary; no workers. The solitary wasps are representedby the genera Eumenes, Odynems, etc. Eumenes fraterna Say con-structs a round cell of pellets of mud, as big as a cherry, which itfills with small caterpillars; Odynerus albophaleratus Saussure alsopreys on small caterpillars, which it stores in round mud-cells. Family Vespidae.—In the social or paper wasps, the republic is anumerous one, there being manyworkers. They all have two spursat the end of the middle tibiae. Pc-listes americanus Fabr. and ot
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . ary; no workers. The solitary wasps are representedby the genera Eumenes, Odynems, etc. Eumenes fraterna Say con-structs a round cell of pellets of mud, as big as a cherry, which itfills with small caterpillars; Odynerus albophaleratus Saussure alsopreys on small caterpillars, which it stores in round mud-cells. Family Vespidae.—In the social or paper wasps, the republic is anumerous one, there being manyworkers. They all have two spursat the end of the middle tibiae. Pc-listes americanus Fabr. and otherspecies build nests consisting offew cells in one row, attachedmouth downward to bushes. Thespecies of Vespa build several tiersof cells, arranged mouth down-ward, and enveloped by a wall ofseveral thicknesses of paper. Ourcommoner species are Vespa arena-ria Fabr. and a larger species, the FlG ^-~VesPa maculata. Nat. size,white-faced wasp, Vespa maculata Linn. The females found thecolony, and raise a brood of workers, which early in the summerassist the queen in completing the 176 ENTOMOLOGY. The bees, formerly included in the family Apidee, belongto the section Anthophila, which is divided into two fami-lies. In all bees the basal joint of the hind tarsi is (ex-cept in the parasitic speciesof Nomada, etc.) broad andflat, generally bristly, andadapted for carrying pollen. Family Andrenidae.— Solitarybees with the labium flattened,shorter than the mentum. Halictusparallelus Say excavates in fieldsnests like those of Andrena mcinaSmith (Fig. 226). Family Apidae.—In the socialbees, where there are, as in Bombusand Apis, numerous workers, thelabium is slender, not flattened,and is longer than the mentum;the basal joints of the labial palpiare longer than the others. The queen humble-bee hiber-nates, and in the spring founds hercolony by laying up pellets of pol-len in some subterranean mouse-nest or in a stump, and the young,hatching, gradually eat the pollen,and w
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