Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 106
one rich in nebulae, but they aremostly small in appearance, and are lost in thereproduction. A TRAGEDY OF THE ROADSIDE It is well known that many wasps store their nestswith spiders which are paralyzed by the waspssting, but not killed. Among these motionless butstill living spiders, the wasp… … SPHEX PENNSYLVANICUS AND ITS SPIDER VICTIM. spiders. Some wasps seek only one kind of spider,others are not so particular. One summer, as I was collecting insects alonga mountain road in Virginia, my attention was at-tracted by the antics of a large, blue-black waspsome distance ahead. She flew up,…
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