Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 868
nly en-dowed with life, for from the hole in its center camecrawling forth six little fat green worms. The nextday, while sitting at the same table, a wasp flew in,carrying something long and green. It went directlyto the spool, and entered the hole head first, draggingits burden with it. Remaining… … WREN-WASP (ODYNERrS) BRINGING A CATERPILLARTO ITS NEST IN A SPOOL. Some of the caterpillars are crawling out of the overturned nest.Probably the wasp had not stung them sufficiently to make them in-active. The figure below at left is a spool, split lengthwise to show thewren-wasps nest within and…
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