The Mason-Wasps
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The Mason-Wasps is by Jean-Henri Fabre. Chapter I, The Eumenes, gives a summary sketch of the Eumenes: a wasp-like garb of black and yellow, a slender, graceful figure, wings that are not spread flat when resting but are folded lengthwise in two, a leisurely and silent flight and lonely habits. The writer says his part of the country possesses two species, and that the larger, E. Amadei, Lep., measures nearly an inch in length.
The writer's old notes describe the caterpillars found in the nest of E. Amadei as having a pale-green or, less often, yellowish body covered with short white hairs. By numbering them, the writer says, one can tell how many journeys the Pelopæus has taken to her mortar, and he counts between fifteen and twenty. The writer examines grubs again ten hours after an operation and finds that the hind-legs are tremulous and no longer of use for locomotion, as paralysis is overtaking them.
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- Author
- Jean-Henri Fabre
- Pages
- 166
- Language
- English
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- Popular Science
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