WASPS

SOCIAL AND SOLITARY

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PELOPÆUS ON NEST, GROUP OF FINISHED CELLS, AND TUBE OPENEDTO SHOW SPIDERS

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WASPS

SOCIAL AND SOLITARY

BY

GEORGE W. PECKHAM

AND

ELIZABETH G. PECKHAM

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN BURROUGHS

ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES H. EMERTON

“Bold sons of air and heat, untamed, untired.”—Iliad, Book XVII

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1905

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COPYRIGHT 1905 BY GEORGE W. PECKHAM AND ELIZABETH G. PECKHAM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published April, 1905

NOTE

A PART of the matter presented in this volume waspublished several years ago by the Wisconsin BiologicalSurvey, under the title “Instincts and Habits of theSolitary Wasps.” These chapters have been revisedand modified, and new matter based upon later workhas been added, in the hope that in their present lesstechnical form the observations recorded will be of interestto the general reader.

For a number of the text cuts used in this volume weare indebted to the courtesy of Dr. E. A. Birge, Directorof the Wisconsin Geological and Natural HistorySurvey.