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THIS book may be described as a popularization anew of the writings of Fabre and the Peckhams on the habits of the solitary wasps, enlivened by a number of personal anecdotes not always about insects, the whole written in a vivid and racy style which makes for easy reading. The author's manner may be sufficiently illustrated by his description of the wasps' nest in winter. “The long low-ceilinged halls echo vacantly. The cradles in their thousands lie empty. Vermin creep in : the mouse, the earwig, and the beetle keep the courts where Vespa gloried and drank deep”.
The Hunting Wasp
By John Crompton. Pp. 255. (London and Glasgow: Wm. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1948.) 10s. 6d. net.
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WIGGLESWORTH, V. The Hunting Wasp. Nature 162, 758 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162758d0
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