Wasps and their ways . THE MINERS 291. the neighbourhood, acting upon a superiorintellectual development of the individualwasp that does it, who shallsay? One of these wasps oncedug her nest and caught herspider — a large one, whichshe dragged near her burrow. Presently she went tolook at her nest and seemed to be struckwith a thought that had already occurredto us, — that it was decidedly too smallto hold the spider. Back she went foranother survey of her bulky victim, mea-sured it with her eye, without touchingit, drew her conclusions, and at once re-turned to the nest and began to make itla
Wasps and their ways . THE MINERS 291. the neighbourhood, acting upon a superiorintellectual development of the individualwasp that does it, who shallsay? One of these wasps oncedug her nest and caught herspider — a large one, whichshe dragged near her burrow. Presently she went tolook at her nest and seemed to be struckwith a thought that had already occurredto us, — that it was decidedly too smallto hold the spider. Back she went foranother survey of her bulky victim, mea-sured it with her eye, without touchingit, drew her conclusions, and at once re-turned to the nest and began to make itlarger. We had several times seen waspsenlarge their holes when a trial had demon-strated that the spider would not go in,but this seemed a remarkably intelligentuse of the comparative faculty. . Whileshe was thus employed, the spider was 292 WASPS AND THEIR WAYS attacked by a very tiny red ant, that couldnot by any possibility have stirred the wasp caught sight of this insig-nificant marauder she fell into a fit of wild
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