From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.
Calumny is like the wasp which worries you; which it were best not to try to get rid of, unless you are sure of slaying it, for otherwise it will return to the charge more furious than ever.
A wasp flew from the hole with an angry buzz and lighted fair and square on Billy's nose, burying its stinger deep into the flesh.
Now observe what the solitary wasp does; she digs several holes in the sand, in each of which she deposits an egg, though she certainly knows not (?
This instinct of the parent wasp is the more remarkable as it does not feed upon flesh itself.
When the wasp worm is hatched, it finds a store of provision ready made; and what is most curious, the quantity allotted to each is exactly sufficient to support it, till it attains the period of wasphood, and can provide for itself.
Wasps also frequently wing their way at a considerable elevation, and thus it is that the hive-bee and the wasp so commonly enter the upper windows of houses.
I watched them for half an hour and found that every half-minute a wasp went in at the aperture carrying a blue-bottle or some kind of fly in its mandibles.
I keep thinkin' there's nothin' left 'n' then I get a wasp at each end at once.
In the case of the Guêpes végétantes, the wasp is said to fly about with the fungus partially developed.
Mr. Gray says that a similar mould has been observed on individuals of the wasp family.
Madianna states that he has noticed the wasp still living with its incumbrance attached to it, though apparently in the last stage of existence, and seeming about to perish from the influence of its destructive parasite.
But on one occasion the greenhead managed to turn, so that he fronted his assailant and promptly grappled with him, sinking his evil lancet into the wasp's body and holding the wasp so tight that the latter could not thrust with its sting.
These are towers built by the sand-wasp of the pieces of rubbish which she scoops out of her mine.
Illustration: The Larva of a Wasp in its coat of wings and limbs.
The common wasp is represented as an example of this kind.
The kakerlac, however, is the Turnus, and the warriorwasp the AEneas of the fight.
Of these, the insect called the sand-wasp forms, perhaps, one of the most interesting examples.
The wasp enters the hole backwards, and, seizing the head of the kakerlac, endeavours with all its might to drag it in, but all in vain.
Then above each is a heap of caterpillars, arranged with beautiful neatness, and larvae and caterpillars are both fast locked in their prison house by the firm stopping with which the parentwasp has closed the mouth of the cells.
The warrior wasp has also been making his expeditions for prey abroad, when suddenly his eager eye catches sight of the kakerlac hastening to some new scene of depredation.
We boldly bore up to this Briton, Whose cannon began for to roar; The Wasp soon her stings from her side ran, When we on them a broadside did pour.
They parted company, and the Wasp was never seen again.
The Wasp then took your Frolic, We'll nothing say to that, The Poictiers being of the line, Of course she took her back.
A waspassailed her so reclined, Bred of a persecuting kind.
A monster wasp appeared a hundred feet overhead, checked in its flight, and plunged upon the luckless banqueter.
The wasp had paralyzed a caterpillar, taken it into the ready-prepared burrow, laid an egg upon it, and sealed up the entrance.
So the pirate-wasp sought its reward--an insane, insatiable, gluttonous satisfaction in the honey that was poison to its young.
The wasphad stung in a certain place in the neck-parts where all the nerve-cords pass.
Sometimes a slender, gracefulwasp passed overhead, its wings invisible by the swiftness of their vibration.
Now and then a wasp sped by, intent upon its hunting, or a bee droned heavily alone, anxious and worried, striving to gather pollen in a nearly flowerless world.
They had killed ants for food and a pirate-wasp as an exercise in courage.
To sting there, the wasp had to bring its victim to a particular pose.
The wasp suddenly moved with that ghastly skilled precision of a creature performing an incredible feat instinctively, apparently unaware that it is doing so.
The parent wasp set about abstracting the dead bee's honey, before taking the carcass to its young one, because honey is poisonous to the pirate-wasp's grub.
But he did observe the waspemerge again to scratch dirt and stones previously excavated laboriously back into the shaft until it was full.
Above the plain a wasp hovered, dangling a heavy object beneath its black belly across which ran a single red band.
The wasp preened itself, then matter-of-factly grasped its victim and flew away.
They had attacked and slain a wasp whose sting would have killed any of them.
I have seen a wasp bite a large caterpillar in two, carry off the anterior section and return for the posterior, which had held on by its prolegs.
Did the wasp anticipate this fact, and therefore carry off the anterior part first?
The Wasp had five men killed and five slightly wounded.
An attack was made, and a heavy fire of cannon and musketry opened upon them, which was quickly returned by the Wasp without interruption.
This the Wasp instantly returned, and coming nearer to the enemy, the action became close and without intermission.
At thirty-two minutes past eleven, the Wasp came down to windward on her larboard side, within about sixty yards and hailed.
Two ships closely engaged, the bowsprit of the Wasp between the mast of the Frolic; men engaged on the bow of the Wasp while in the act of boarding the Frolic; the main-topmast of the Wasp shot away.
What is, however, decisive, as to their comparative force is, that the officers of the Frolic acknowledged that they had as many men as they knew what to do with, and in fact the Wasp could have spared fifteen men.
Evidently a wasp does not only perceive motion; she also distinguishes the size of objects.
We may certainly conclude that the waspsaw something of the size of a fly, but without distinguishing the details; therefore she saw it indistinctly.
For example, I watched one day a wasp chasing a fly on the wall of a veranda, as is the habit of this insect at the end of summer and in the autumn.
In one spot of the wall was stuck a black nail, which was just the size of a fly, and I saw the wasp very frequently deceived by this nail, upon which she sprang, leaving it as soon as she perceived her error on touching it.
And both the aviators, having managed to free themselves, leapt out as the singed and broken air-wasp lightly struck the waves.
We didn't bargain to have theWasp at such close quarters!
If the Bumble and the Wasp gad off to enjoy themselves, why shouldn't we make a night of it too?
My own private opinion is that both the Bumble and the Waspwill go buzzing off to that Limberlost, exploring on their own, some day, and I don't blame them.
It is remarkable, however, that while in some constitutions the sting of a single bee or wasp is sufficient sometimes to induce alarming symptoms, in others numerous punctures will produce little or no pain or inflammation.
In the wasp and humble-bee the stomach is very long, with muscular rings surrounding it[531].
The Wasp and the Snake A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death.
A man of money drowns his wasp in the jar with his spoon, and carelessly calls for another pot to be opened.
The wasp gun is different; having seen it, I feel that I should be miserable without it.
A Question of Form The latest invention on the market is the wasp gun.
Why, then, should the wasp gun be considered bad form?
Perhaps a wasp gun indicates a lack of silver spoons suitable for lethal uses.
Yet I am afraid that society will look down upon the wasp gun.
I can imagine a bounder being described as "the sort of person who uses a wasp gun instead of a teaspoon.
But I can see that a lot of fun can be got out of a wasp drive.
The dame in the car," said Isidor, owner of the Busy Wasp Lunchroom.
When the last hind leg dropped, the wasp seized the body of the spider, and flew away outside of my little hut to devour it.
The wasp all the time was hovering above the spider with very quick motions, her legs moving so fast that I could not see all their movements.
This time the long legs of the spider were of the same use to it as were those of the wasp in the other fight I have related.
Then the spider tried to run away, but could not, for the long legs of the wasp moved between his legs in a backward sort of a way, which prevented the spider from advancing.
I considered the fight over, and that the wasp was victor.
It appeared to me that the spider thought a wasp was going to attack it, and thus protected itself.
The wasp kept flying above the spider, moving her long legs with great rapidity between the legs of the spider, while her head was touching that of her opponent, and giving a bite from time to time.
Paul slew a wasp on the edge of his jam-baited plate and then took the telegram.
He was silent for a moment, apparently studying with deep interest the remains of the wasp on his plate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wasp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bee; drone; insect; worker
