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Neft, at Ham , Anno 1587. in which he found no 
Wafps without a Sting, But I wonder how that cu- 
rious Enquirer miffed of thefe fting-lefs Male Wafps. 
Surely he was too hafty in his Examination, and not 
being aware of the difference, he thought the Males 
(which are but few in number to the labouring 
Wafps ) were the fame and had Stings as well as the reft $ 
or elfe he made his Enquiry at a Time when perhaps 
the Males had deferted the Neft, which probably they 
• may do, as the Male or Drone-Bees are forced to do : 
or elfe the Year 1587, (in which Moufet made his 
Obfervation) might produce fewer Wafps , at leaft fewer 
Male Wafps, than this laft Summer of 1723. did, in 
which I made my Obfervation , which was obferved to 
have a greater abundance of Wafp-Nefts than hath been 
known in many Years. And in all the Nefts that I 
fearched into, 1 conftantly found Male Wafps , either 
many or ftv r . according to the Size of the Neft, and 
Number of Wafps therein* And the Part of the Neft 
where thefe Males are bred, or at leaft where I found 
them moft to refide, was chiefly the two uppermoft 
Cells, or Partings, between the Combs, but one. 
But to return to the Diftindion of our Male Wafps.- 
Another thing by which they may be known from 
other Wafps, is their Antenna , or Horns *. which are 
longer and larger than either thofe of the Queen , or 
common Wafps ^ and with them they feem, in run- 
ning, to feel more than the others do. 
But the grand and chief Difference, are the Parts of 
Generation of thefe Male Wafps , quite different from 
other Wafps, Which I diffeded with all Care, and 
ftiallgive a Defcription of, as well as I can, without 
Figures, which I could not get drawn, partly for 
want of a Defigner, and partly from my Removals 
between WinJfor and Upminjler. in which Time the 
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