Elementary studies in insect life Elementary studies in insect life elementarystudie00hunt Year: 1902 »'* FIG. 55. Mud-daubers and their nests. From photograph. X 'i. eggs they prepare a nest, as it were, by digging a hole in the ground or excavating a cavity in some tree or partially decayed log or stem, or constructing a cell of mud or of wood pulp. Here they place the eggs singly, and proceed to capture the characteristic food for their young. These caterpillars, or whatever the prey may be, they sting in such a way as to stupefy. In this condi- tion the captives remain, to become food for
Elementary studies in insect life Elementary studies in insect life elementarystudie00hunt Year: 1902 »'* FIG. 55. Mud-daubers and their nests. From photograph. X 'i. eggs they prepare a nest, as it were, by digging a hole in the ground or excavating a cavity in some tree or partially decayed log or stem, or constructing a cell of mud or of wood pulp. Here they place the eggs singly, and proceed to capture the characteristic food for their young. These caterpillars, or whatever the prey may be, they sting in such a way as to stupefy. In this condi- tion the captives remain, to become food for the young upon their appearance. — 5
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