Bald-faced hornet to laying eggs while the workers take over all other necessary housekeeping tasks. At some point, sometime before the midpoint of colony life, the colony will begin to invest energy in producing reproductives as well. This marks the transition into the reproductive stage. There is an extensive time period where both workers and reproductives are raised. Production of both castes limits the size of the work force. However, an early switching time is highly adaptive for social wasp colonies in limiting the risk of total loss. In a sampling of 50 colonies taken in Maryland in 1977, workers were produced
USS Hornet (1865) in the Chesapeake Bay squadron. In October 1865, "Hornet" escorted the Confederate ironclad CSS "Stonewall" from Cuba to the United States. "Hornet" was decommissioned on 15 December 1865 and sold into private ownership in 1869. After the war "Hornet" was involved in several filibustering expeditions to Cuba under the names "Hornet" and "Cuba", including an unsuccessful mission in January 1871 to deliver weapons and ammunition to Cuban rebels during the Ten Years' War. USS Hornet (1865) The USS "Hornet" (1865) was the fifth United States Navy ship to bear the name Hornet. She was originally the CSS "Lady Stirling", a