miss-wasps

Updated: May 13, 2025

The sound emitted by the Queens is peculiar, differing materially from that of any other bee. It consists of a number of monotonous notes in rapid succession, similar to those emitted by the mud-wasp when working her mortar and joining it to her cells, to raise miss-wasps.

John M. (John Moseley) Weeks - A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees