VESPA'S FOOD SUPPLY 



WHILE in the spring and early sum- 

 mer Vespa lives largely upon 

 nectar, she is not at all conservative upon 

 the food question. All is fish that comes 

 to her net. She is decidedly omnivorous, 

 even enjoying cooked food when she can 

 get it. She often flies into dining-rooms 

 and kitchens and helps herself to what she 

 finds ; an informal assumption of unoflfered 

 hospitality that gives her more pleasure 

 than any one else concerned. 



Later in the season she sucks other 

 people's fruit juice with the same opti- 

 mistic disregard of property rights, and 

 with her sharp jaws cheerfully punctures 

 and then eats the choicest spot on the 

 juiciest, ripest, and best fruit that the 

 orchard affords. 



The best is none too good for a wasp, 

 she believes, and lives up to her faith. 



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