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all with Safety be feized with the naked Hand, pro- 
vided it can be fecured again# the Queen~Wafp y 
which is the only one in the Company that is pro- 
vided. with a Sting. 
For a Clofe of thefe Obfervations about the Sexes 
of Wafps, I (hall take Notice of Moufefs Experiment, 
("which 1 try'd) viz, If you take a Wafp by the Feet y 
and fuffer her to buz\ that th'ofe. Wafps y which have- 
no Stings , will fly to her y but not any that have Stings . 
Which fome y he faith, nfe as an Argument to prove 
that fome Wafps are Males ; fome Females, This Ex- 
periment I was minded to try with a Quee?i-Wafp y 
more efpecially, not knowing but that Wafps , parti- 
cularly the Males , might be as fond of their Queens , 
as the Bees are of theirs, who will not forfake them, 
but will live and die with them. But I did not find 
it to fucceed fo among the Wafps • For although I 
put fome Quee?i-Wafps y and others alfo, near the En- 
trance of fome large Wafp-Nefls , yet I did not fee 
any Flock near them, only now and then one of the 
common Wafps, for a little while, to fee their Fellow 
confined. But indeed the Queen-Wafps which I con- 
fined were weak, and did not buz long; as alfo the 
time of Copulation was probably pafl, it being Ait - 
gujl i 2 , when I try’d the Experiment. 
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