...Scarcely a house was fit to be defended, for Khinjan's fighting men all possess towers, that are plastered about the overfrowning mountain like wasp nests on a wall...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...This curve is directed downwards, so that the wasp has to creep up it before reaching the actual orifice of the nest...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...One often hears people say that they have seen such a large wasp that they think it must have been a hornet, but no one who has ever seen a hornet could mistake a wasp for one...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...Even a queen wasp is not so large as a small worker hornet...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...The cuckoo wasp (Vespa austriaca), formerly known as V...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
..." We see the faithful Wasp "scampering at large in athousand wheels round the heath, and come back to jump up to hismaster, and assure him that he participated in the pleasures of thejourney...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...Ihave observed them in many other insects, either in the larval or inthe perfect state; but in this respect there is none to equal thegrub of the game-hunting Wasp, which is all speckled with white...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
... Bolder still, the wasp has taken possession of the dwelling house...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...The wasp is not so silly nor the Volucella so clever as we are assured...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...If the latter really meant to deceive the Wasp by her appearance, we must admit that her disguise is none too successful...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...She belongs to the guild, she is a wasp herself...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Moreover, as with the larvae of the wasp, it is some time before they are suffocated by the petroleum fumes; and so most of them are sure to hatch...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Indeed, if I prick the wasp grub with a needle, the scornful ones at once come and sup at the bleeding wound...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Let us give some instances of this clemency, which is very strange in the irascible Wasp...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...I once experimented in the same way with the largest of our Cerceres (Cerceris tuberculata) (Another Hunting Wasp, who feeds her young on Weevils...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
..." It tells of a Wasp that has just caught and killed a big Fly...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...), I demonstrated by experiment that Erasmus Darwin's Wasp was but obeying her instinct, which is to cut up the captured game and to keep only the most nourishing part, the thorax...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...The female has no wings, but, being a Wasp, she carries a sharp poniard...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
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