OBSERVATIONS ON THE WHITE-FACED WASP DOLICHOVESPULA MACULATA (LINN) (Vespidae, Hymenoptera)
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Opportunities to peer through a glass window into a nest while it is inhabited by living white-faced wasps are doubtlessly rare. Such an occasion was afforded us at Eaglesnest Lake, near Tower and Ely, in northern Minnesota in the summer of 1952. The nest was attached to a vertical glass window on the west side of a cabin owned by our neighbor friends, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar C. Love, of Orion, Illinois, and their daughter Katherine, of New York City. When our friends arrived to start their vacation on August 5, and discovered a lively colony of stinging creatures inconveniently placed only 12 feet from their only cabin door, their impulse was not to destroy but to retain it for observation. Thus, the results given below are made possible by their attitude of tolerance and appreciation. I am happily indebted also to Edgar and Katherine for a series of excellent photographs. Some of the pictures are selected to illustrate this report and all of them were employed in describing the architecture of the nest.
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