Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 205
o its nest, without tak-ing any further note of the locality. Such an actionis not the result of bhnd instinct, but of a thinkingmind: and it is wonderful to see an insect so differ-ently constructed using a mental process similar to thatof man. It is suggestive of the probability of manyof the… … OST graceful andattractive of alltlie wasps — asFabre describesthem, the Am-mophiles, of allthe inhabitantsof the garden, holdthe first place in ouraffections. Not sobeautiful as the bluePelopaeus nor so indus-trious as the little red-girdled Trypoxylon,their intelligence, their…
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