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I put it away in an unventilated can to see how 

 long it would live. The photograph given (Fig. 41) 

 was posed four weeks later. The dead wasp has 

 been propped up on her stiff legs as well as 



Fig. 41. Tarantula and tarantula hawk 



possible, but the tarantula, which is still alive, 

 can be much better posed because his legs, though 

 almost helpless, are still flexible. In fact, he 

 could still move them slightly. 



The tarantula lived thirty-five days in his can. 

 If he had been taken away by the wasp he would 

 have lived as long, unless he had first been eaten. 

 The wasp had near by a hole which she had 

 carefully prepared for a nest. There she meant 

 to drag the tarantula and lay her eggs on it. 



