Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 868
WREN-WASP (ODYNERrS) BRINGING A CATERPILLARTO ITS NEST IN A SPOOL. Some of the caterpillars are crawling out of the overturned nest.Probably the wasp had not stung them sufficiently to make them in-active. The figure below at left is a spool, split lengthwise to show thewren-wasps nest within and… … A SOLITARY DIGGER-WASP (AMMOPHILA URNAR1A). Using a stone to pound down the earth over its filled and finished nest or burrow. (Illustration by permission of Professor George W. Peckham.) the top of which was sealed with mud, and which alsocontained worms. Yours very truly, Harriet M. Greenleaf.…
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