New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23

their crafts than any Of the creatures that came
between them and their big brother. For instance,
rather as the head OF the family does not amount
the II bee more IN the wasp family 'i ne Goes II.
Mrs. Papermaker Wasp makes real paper of
veritable wood pulp. She gets her material from
rail fences and her paper shows streaks, where
she has chewed red rail here and a white or q
black one there Her paper house when complete.
looks Ike a honeycomb- In each cell she packs an
egg snugly away. When the babies are born she
comes with loads Of bee bread, which Is honey and
head Of its own cell ike bird, when 1t hears
its mother coming. II is quite remarkable 70 see
mem As So6n as one t rs Tenn bs Is.
and after a while the mother does nothing but lay
ie ba ape houses s are closed tight With clay That
vs. dora nv sbfriess PARASITIC wasp TOO lazy to
build her own house who went in and laid her
came out. she fastened up the door with mud, so
that the raging Mrs Papermaker could not get in
kin her eggs When the parasite wasp Is born
then nit it breaks sd down the door and dies away
This way Of stocking the aTder seems eT 20 Dc f5e
specius, big yellow wasp, who has to nave Ger
IS big fat locust much larger than the wasp;
but when Mrs Specius gets ready for business his
begins 10 think of raising family. she i!Fsf eiss
hole seven feet deep. Ihen she starts Locus. Locust
whirr She pIunges for him Ike cannon ball She
80 erssh him to The the ground Where hey arrive with
thunp. As the cicada is larger and heavier than
and fly away with him. So she drags him up
is4fn u 4fr+ toward her seTer-foot hoe When
gravity carries the locust 70 the ground she
destination. Then she drags the cicada to the bot
tom Of her lair. deposits an egg upon his living but
70 repeat the operation mis- she does as long as
when the little specius arrives upon the scene he
begins to eat the Ccada, thus kept fresh for him
bv his obliging mamma When the cicada is ali
gone but his wings the little larva is fun grown
bores his way out Of the seven foot hole and hav-
ing somewhere along the way turned into a wasp,
flies gayly away
INSECT LIONS AND TIGERS"
The predsceous insects the lions and tigers OF the
insect world. the park mans friends and allies
He rejoices in their wicked. caruivorous ways and
has deep dislike for the gentle vegetarians who
live upon his leaves and twigs These insect car
nfvora have fearful Jaws. ike scymitar. so long
that they overlap each other in some species. No
70 his size Mr. solthvclz is var fond of Hose lose
jaws. because they eat the caterpiliars.
The Joker OF the insect world is the seventeen
wear locust. He doesn't do sny harm rrt he ie
50 very CURIOUS that people have studied him more
years and every brood in this co7-ntr] is 1870
and the date for its next visit set down LAST
year broods appeared on Long Island Staten Island
There are 1880 different species Of Insects IN Mr.
SoUth~ick room. AZ collected in and around
leaf hopper discovered by him most Of them in the
city parks. One Of them is named after him the
harm sucking al the moisture out Of the leaves
Office At evetynnthst and Ffsh+b 5.s mas IN
southWlck h4s Hover garden II looks ike
trailing the rocks. and dahlas and n1sripoI5s
putting out their brightest colors One would never
6Tosr is ~ bree5jTe pssn5 Here the ento-
see what poison VIII kill them best e "
This Is the first year that he has had charge ~
the street trees OF New-York and Staten Island
They in bad condition from vears ~ rngIt
bur are iooking better now, and II is hoped bv
keeping them perfecty clean that they may be got
into healthy condition