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LEW of our common insects 
enjoy a wider intimate ac- 
quaintance with or a more respect- 
ful recognition from humanity than 
the wasps and hornets. Their ac- 
quaintance, with that of their yellow- 
jacket bee and bumble-bee relatives, 
is forced upon most of us at a ten- 
der and impressionable age, and leaves 
a lasting reminiscence. Having once 
been interviewed by a hornet, do we 
not remember him for life for his pains ? 
The bee has perhaps given us equally pointed 
excuse for respectful, or rather disrespectful, con- 
sideration, and yet how different is our attitude to 
the bee in contrast with that towards the hornet! 
Why? The discrimination is largely a matter of 
