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Volume 2 - December 1870

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  • REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE WOOD PAPER-MAKING WASPS

  • William Couper
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 May 2012, pp. 49-53

  • The history of the wasps of temperate America has not been recorded. It appears that entomologists have no great desire to study those interesting insects; and although several species occur in Canada, we know little or nothing of their natural history. One species, the spotted wood wasp (Vespa maculata, Linn.), occurs commonly, as near as I can determine, about every third year, in our northern woods. Havinq partially studied its habits, and collected a series of the nests in all their stages, it is particularly in regard to the latter that I claim attention. But before I proceed to relate what I have ascertained regarding their architecture, it will suffice to state that each large nest which we notice suspended from trees towards the end of summer consisted of a colony of males, females and workers or imperfect females, as they are termed.

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  • GALLS FOUND ON PLANTS OF THE GENUS RUBUS

  • H. F. Bassett
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 May 2012, pp. 98-100

  • I think the gall described in the last number of the Entomologist by Mr. Wm. Couper, as found on the roots of the raspberry, has never been noticed before. I have in my collection a species of gall fly, hitherto undescribed, belonging to the genus Diastrophus, which I reared in great numbers from galls found on the roots of Rubus villosus, the common blackberry; these galls were polythalamous, however, and are undoubtedly distinct from his species,

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