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Show BUSY LIVES LED BY WASPS ' Insects as Industrious at Home as I When They Get After the Swim- mlng Small Bey. i Wasp appear to be wsllalgh as la- duatrlous as ants or bees. One au- thorlty ha declared that the cardinal . doctrine of the wasps la: "If any waap will Dot work, neither anal! he ' eaL" I Division of labor Is clearly seeo la the wasp's nest. Home of tbe workers work-ers seem to be specially employed as foragers and soldiers, others appear to be told off as nurse and guardians, while yet others sre engaged a paper- maker and masons . Wasps are at all time particularly i fond of honey. Toward the end of aummer, aa all bee keepers know, tbey mill force their way Into be hive and carry off by force as much as they i can gorge of their winged neighbor's ! boney. t Tbe drones of tbe wasp world, la- I stead of being Idle and luxurious, are 1 sober. Industrious sad well behaved ' members of the community. Tbey 1 clean tbe streets or their town witb f exemplary diligence, acting sa public 1 scavengers or sanitary officers. Aad c tbey have their reward, for. unlike tbe , bea drones, they live their allotted life la peace and quietness antll win- c ter lavolves both them and their maiden sister tn one common cataclysm cata-clysm of death and destruction. |
