. Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902 . parts (original). 1902 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 71 up, that it had purloined from a butchers shop or somebodys larder ; a specimen of the insectpopularly known as daddy-long-legs, shorn of its wings and other encumbrances, especiallyif the day be a windy one, for the purpose of lessening the difficulty of conveying such anunwieldly creature through a disturbed atmosphere—for wasps have powers as nearly aspossible allied to reasoning ones, as has been observed upon other occasions as well as the onerecorded above ; or perchance
. Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902 . parts (original). 1902 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 71 up, that it had purloined from a butchers shop or somebodys larder ; a specimen of the insectpopularly known as daddy-long-legs, shorn of its wings and other encumbrances, especiallyif the day be a windy one, for the purpose of lessening the difficulty of conveying such anunwieldly creature through a disturbed atmosphere—for wasps have powers as nearly aspossible allied to reasoning ones, as has been observed upon other occasions as well as the onerecorded above ; or perchance a winged ant caught in the act of migration, is met at theentrance to the nest by one, two, and sometimes three other attendants. These at once lendtheir aid in cutting up the prey, which they not only reduce to the consistency of pulp bymastication, but to all appearance actually swallow. Having done this they separate, andtaking different courses, commence feeding the larvse which lie in their route. As they passover a cell, the larva therein contained, if hun
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