More Hunting Wasps (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Fabre, J. Henri

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9780260530738: More Hunting Wasps (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0260530735 ISBN 13: 9780260530738

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The Pompilus has done no digging. It is really an accidental hole with spacious winding passages, the result of the mason's negligence and not of the Wasp's industry. The closing of the cavity is quite as rough and summary. A few crumbs. Of mortar, heaped up before the doorway, form a bar ricade rather than a door. A mighty hunter makes a poor architect. The Tarantula's murderess does not know how to dig a cell for her larva; she does not know how to fill up the entrance by sweeping dust into it. The first hole encountered at the foot of a wall contents her, provided that it be roomy enough; a little heap of rubbish will do for a door. Nothing could be more expeditious.

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