POTENT PERSONALITIES -WASPS AND HORNETS 



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THE TARANTULA S HOME BECOMES ITS TOMB 



After cxamininf; the victim with extreme care, the wasp — always walking backward — drags the 

 paralyzed spider to its own hole. When she gets it to the bottom of the burrow she will calmly lay 

 an egg on the captive, close the hole, and go away. 



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THE END or A TARANTULA, THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER WASP 



From the egg laid on the living spider's body will emerge a grub that will feed upon the victim and 

 ultimately become a tarantula hawk, perhaps a fighting female like its warrior mother (p. 55). 



