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ACTION! LIGHTS! CAMERA! THE AUTHOR-DIRECTOR SHOOTS HIS LEADING LADY 



IN HER TINY GLASS-ENCLOSED SET (PAGES SlS-819) 



The set is the photographing cage, held together with clothespins (right). Snug and safe lies 

 the insect Sleeping Beauty in her cocoon within the windowed chamber, while the Peeping Tom 

 camera records the secrets of her magical transformations. With this apparatus were made the 

 greatly magnified insect "portraits." All specimens were photographed alive and unposed. 



PSAMMY LAYS AN EGG ON HER INERT VICTIM S ABDOMEN 



In a furious rough-and-tumble duel, the wasp has stung the spider into a paralyzed state of 

 partialh' suspended animation. Psammy is a careful and efficient worker. She examines and fusses 

 over the spider, sometimes stinging it several times until she considers it properly "knocked out." 

 Above the emerging egg, which sticks slighth' and doesn't fall off, appears the wasp's deadly sting. 

 Only during the act of egg laying is the light-colored, triangular, stinging muscle at the end of the 

 abdomen visible. At other times it is protected by the overlapping armor plates. 



