These wasps of the Ocean," as a Chinese historian calls them, were further distinguished by the names of their respective commanders: by these commanders a certain Ching-yih had been the most distinguished by his valor and conduct.
These experiments varied in nature from observations of the habits of bees and wasps to major surgical operations performed upon hedgehogs, dogs, leopards, etc.
Wasps and bees are often closely imitated by insects of other orders.
Still more remarkable are the traps in the flower of Asclepias which catch flies, butterflies, and wasps by the legs, and the wonderfully complex arrangements of the orchids.
We all know how well marked and conspicuous are the colours and forms of the stinging wasps and bees, no one of which in any part of the world is known to be protectively coloured like the majority of defenceless insects.
Hence we see that even the powerful stings of bees and wasps only protect them against some enemies, since a tribe of birds, the bee-eaters, have been developed which feed upon them, and some frogs and lizards do so occasionally.
It is black, with a bright vermilion patch on the middle of the body; and it is so well recognised by this conspicuous coloration that even the spider-hunting wasps avoid it.
The mason-wasps or mud daubers are the most common.
In the same way the digger-wasps make their own little burrows if they are obliged to, but prefer to help themselves to ones they find already made, although they don't drive anybody else out.
What are known as "social" wasps sometimes build their nests in tiny hollows that they dig in the ground; others fasten their nests to the boughs of trees.
Among the planters at Jamestown was John Rolfe, a zealous Christian, who became interested in Pocahontas.
But after the first half-hour of eager grasping, one becomes fastidious, rather scorns those on which the wasps and flies have alighted, and seeks only the stainless.
Showy wasps of many species fume uselessly about, in gallant uniforms, wasting an immense deal of unnecessary anger on the sultry universe.
Butterflies and wasps forgot for a moment their beauty and their sting.
Yet again, wasps are preyed upon by bee-eaters, and also eaten by our common toad.
Wasps and hornets often swarm about the sweet and early ripe varieties.
It was his idea that many thousands of the wasps might be propagated in artificial nests and loosed on the German armies preceding an attack by the Allies.
The most war-like wasps I have been able to discover in this part of Europe.
The displaced cover showed how the wasps had gotten out.
The wasps would certainly cause disorder, if not a rout, he thought, and so he had communicated his idea to his friend, the colonel.
There was a cloud of the wasps flying about Bob, Jerry, and the professor now, and the tall lad noted that the insects were also hovering around other soldiers and officers.
But for many a day the story of the wasps at headquarters was told up and down the firing line.
I have myself seen these ants plunder a nest of the dangerous and highly aggressive wasps, while the wasps buzzed about in great excitement, but seemed unable effectively to retaliate.
The male wasps are much smaller than the female, but they weigh as much as two workers.
When the cavity and entrance to it are completed, the next part of the process is to lay the foundations of the city to be included in it, which, contrary to the usual customs of builders, wasps begin at the top, continuing downwards.
This bitter stuff will prevent wasps from touching the sugar.
The Wasps in this country take up their abode near the houses where they smell victuals.
During mid-summer the bees and wasps are very busy building their nests and rearing their young.
Tachina); also many carnivorous species of wasps beetles and flies, dragon flies and Aphis lions (Fig.
Great troubles and losses the champion sees, And even in brawling, as wasps among bees: As charity that way appeareth but small; So less be their winnings, or nothing at all.
The grapes must get ripe and the wasps be kept off; and then there are problems connected with vinification which I have not yet solved.
A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.
The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and protect them by a paperlike covering.
Furthermore, the observations on American wasps render it probable that the earlier accounts of the instinctive behaviour of such wasps are exaggerated.
The badger has a special weakness for wild honey, and the grubs of wasps and humble bees.
Nor were they banished, till she found That wasps have stings, and felt the wound.
Conspicuous among well-defended insects are the dark steely or iridescent greenish blue fossorial wasps or sand-wasps, Sphex and the allied genera.
The formidable, well-defended ants are as freely mimicked by other insects as the sand-wasps, ordinary wasps and bees.
At four o’clock on the next morning we went to the garden, and were much surprised to find that the two wasps had worked without intermission throughout the night.
At seven minutes before nine, twenty of the wasps were liberated an eighth of a mile from shore near the end of the island.
Five settled above it, and after they had carried it away the place was visited by several others, while the spot upon which we had killed them drew to it nine wasps within fifteen minutes.
Although these wasps are called wood–borers, they will use convenient cavities in any material.
Our final color experiment was to let the blue paper remain for a day or two, giving time for all the wasps to become familiar with it, and then to leave it on the ground a foot and a half away, while replacing it with yellow.
The garden in which we worked was, to a large extent, the home of a limited number of certain species of wasps that had resided there from birth, or having found the place accidentally, had settled there permanently.
We once placed some dark red nasturtiums on light yellow paper near the nest, and found that more than one third of the homecoming wasps flew to them and hovered over them before entering.
There was no malaxation outside, and certainly there was none within, as was shown by the rapidity with which the wasps issued from the nest after storing the bees.
The wasps were carrying in winged queens by the score, but they did not come our way to find them; and although we ranged about widely, we failed to see the capture.
At this point, thinking that perhaps one of the wasps was a male, and that this might be their style of courtship, we seized both of them; whereupon the fly was dropped, and the two waspsturned their attention to attacking us.
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