When she had heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction, she again flew away and immediately returned with a smaller pebble, perhaps an eighth of an inch in diameter, and then standing more nearly erect, with the front feet folded beneath her, she pressed... On the Instincts and Habits of the Solitary Wasps - Page 24by George Williams Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford Peckham - 1898 - 245 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1890 - 754 lehte
...the stone to the top. The operation so far was remarkable enough, but the next procedure was more so. When she had heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction,...immediately returned with a smaller pebble, perhaps an eighdi of an inch in diameter, and then standing more nearly erect, with the front feet folded beneath... | |
| 1892 - 316 lehte
...the stone to the top. The operation so far was remarkable enough, but the next procedure was more so. When she had heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction,...and accompanying the action with a peculiar rasping sound. After all this was done, and she spent several minutes each time in thus stamping the earth... | |
| Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey - 1898 - 500 lehte
...the stone to the top. The operation so far was remarkable enough, but the next procedure was more so. When she had heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction,...and accompanying the action with a peculiar rasping sound. After all this was done, and she spent several minutes each time in thus stamping the earth... | |
| Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey - 1898 - 314 lehte
...enough, but the next procedure was more eo. When she had heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction, si;.- again flew away and immediately returned with a smaller...and accompanying the action with a peculiar rasping sound. After all this was done, and she spent several minutes each time in thus stamping the earth... | |
| Margaret Warner Morley - 1900 - 330 lehte
...the stone to the top. The operation so far was remarkable enough, but the next procedure was more so. When she had heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction,...and accompanying the action with a peculiar rasping sound. After all this was done, and she spent several minutes each time in thus stamping the earth,... | |
| George Williams Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford Peckham - 1905 - 344 lehte
...the stone to the top. The operation so far was remarkable enough, but the next procedure was more so. When she had heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction,...and accompanying the action with a peculiar rasping sound. After all this was done, and she spent several minutes each time in thus stamping the earth... | |
| Vernon Lyman Kellogg - 1908 - 340 lehte
...[The stone of course was resting on the little circular shelf half an inch down in the hole.] . . . When she had heaped up the dirt to her satisfaction,...and accompanying the action with a peculiar rasping sound." Is this not a creature of wits, this Kansas wasp? And an undaunted worker? For each time she... | |
| |