Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — The Wasp. [ARTICLE]

The Wasp.

"For centuries,” says a scientiflo writer, “the mud wasp has built its cells of soft mud: in the bottom of these cells the female lays itß minute egg, building its mud- home just the size that the young will be when grown. Before closing its mud-walled cell the wasp catches a suitable sized spider, Injects into its body a fluid that causes It to remain torpid through the winter, until with the warmth of returning spring the young wasp grows, consuming the spider for food, thus gaining strength to break the mud walls ana emerge into the outer world a fullwinged insect. And yet no mud wasp from the beginning has ever seen its young.”