The Natural History of Selborne

Great hail at Winton.  Wasps abound in woody, wild districts far from neighbourhoods: how are they supported there without orchards, or butcher’s shambles, or grocer’s shops?  * Wasps nesting far from neighbourhoods feed on flowers, & catch flies & caterpillars to carry to their young.  Wasps make their nests with the raspings of sound timber, hornets with what they gnaw from decayed.  These particles of wood are neaded up with a mixture of saliva from their bodies, & moulded into combs.