276 WASPS 



a somewhat barbarous experiment, that the wasp stings 

 her victims, not only into paralysis, but into insensibility. 

 An unwounded chafer-grub was taken and bound so that 

 it could not move. A young Scolia maggot was placed 

 upon it, and ate right away into the larder provided for 

 it ; but it had not gone very far before the grub perished 

 from sheer pain; whereupon Scolia died too, probably 

 from indigestion. 



