Identifier: americaninsects00kellog (find matches)
Title: American insects
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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the building of the queen-nest (the minia-ture early spring nest, see next paragraph), the gathering of food for thefirst, early spring generation, and the laying of eggs for all the broods bythe females; (3) the bringing of food, and the enlarging and building andcare of the nest and of the young by the workers. It has already been mentioned that a community holds together throughpart of the year only. The life-history of a community is in general outlineas follows: In the early spring fertilized females (queens) which have hiber-nated (as adults) in sheltered places, as crevices in stone walls, under logs,stones, etc., come out from their winter hiding-places and each makes a smallnest (of the kind characteristic of its species, see later) containing a fewbrood-cells. In each cell an egg is laid, and food, consisting of insects, killedand somewhat masticated, is hunted for and brought to the larvae throughouttheir brief life by the queen. The larvae soon pupate in the cells and in a
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FlG. 708.—Nest of Vespa crabro, found in hollow oak-tree on Long Island. (AfterBeutenmuller. Natural size, 2 feet long by 7 inches wide.) 5°4 Saw-flies, Gall-flies, Ichneumons, etc. 5°S few days issue as winged wasps. They are exclusively workers. These

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