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14 and 15. When a wasp larva is fully grown, its lower lip exudes a sticky 

 secretion with which it spins a cap over its cell. On the left the larva has 

 begun spinning and on the right the cap is half done. 



16. Polistes worker in flight by nest. The photographer reports that this 

 wasp had waged " successful warfare " against him. 



