The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 93
tu-ral end to their lives. Birds and toads eat themin large quantities, but perhaps their greatestenemy is the mason-wasp that builds the mudcells on the rafters in the garret. The waspscapture them when they are but half-grown, par-alyze them by stinging, and pack them into theircells to serve as… … DRAGON-FLIES AND THEIR PICTURESQUE HOME IN THE MARSHES WATER-INSECTS AND HOW TO MAKEAN AQUARIUM FOR THEM Not long ago I kept a red-tailed hawk throughone entire summer. But what has this to do with insects? You shall see. Among the variousanimals upon which these hawks feed, frogs arecaptured about…
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