Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 668
Y On the prairies and bad lands of the southwesternUnited States and down through Central America,there is an enormous blue-bodied, red-wingedwasp, known as Pcpsis formosa, that makes avictim of the great hairy tarantula, Mygalchentsii. It is battle royal well worth seeing,though rarely witnessed.… … f THE BLUE DIGGER-WAS! ATTACKING A GRASSY BANK SPIDER. These spiders average about one half an inch in length ; the wasps about five eighths of an inch. bodied caterpillar-killers, Ammophila. Anothercommon group are spider-killers, comparativelyshort-bodied wasps, generally blue-black in color,some…
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