442 TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 



Gradual paralysis would appear to be dangerous to 

 young wasps. They are very tender creatures. A cricket 

 or roach thrashing about within the cell would soon cause 

 fatal bruises, but nature has looked out for them nicely. If 

 undisturbed, the roach and cricket lie quietly enough. Upon 

 their lower surfaces lie the wasp's white eggs, but they are 

 motionless. In forty-eight hours the wasplets emerge, tiny 

 creatures, three millimeters in length, whose baby mouths 

 do not disturb the sleepers. In another day they begin to 

 really chew their hosts, but by this time paralysis has set in. 



There is no significance in the two types of paralysis. 

 They are present in the spider and the roach, simply because 

 of the physiological difference existing between the two. 

 Thus the grub of the roach-killer and the lumberess and those 

 of the spider hunters live much the same. One is as safe in 

 its respective cell as another, so there we shall leave them. 



