WASP

a family of insects @ good many species ae i characteristics, such as et ge of a sting, the building of a and others le obvious. ‘The life history of wasps much resembles that of bees, — that they do not store up food, and all die at | the approach of winter, except a few fomales, which hibernate in @ hole or § under a stone. AS warm sreather ' approaches, the female revives and comincnees a nest, in which she begins to: lay ber eqgs. Some of these so on hatch > and develop, and then the mother-wasp has a band of workers to aid her in en- 2 larsing the nest for the eg¢s she continues to lay. [s. 315]