The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 96
g red or white markings.It is one of these, Pompilus philadclphicus, thatthe writer had the good fortune to observe killingthe common grassy bank spider, Agalcna naevia.This is the little fellow from one half to three quarters of an inch in length, buff- and brown-striped, that builds a gossamer… … THE BLUE DIGGER-WASP ATTACKING A GRASSY BANKSPIDER. Ihese spiders average about one half an inch in length; the waspsabout five eighths of an inch. the grass in search for a place to spin, for it israrely able to catch the spider when its funnel iswithin reach. The wasp also attacks other spi-ders,…
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