The Wasp 
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these excursions, remember, take place 
during the fruit season, which means late 
in the year. What millions of blight flies 
have been previously destroyed by these 
wasps, for the young are, to a great extent, 
reared upon blight flies of different kinds. 
The wasp is not at all particular, and is 
very fond of meat. Thus the butcher will 
often find these little thieves stealing tiny 
portions of his stock. Let the order once 
go forth that all wasps’ nests in any vicinity 
are to be destroyed, then blight will increase 
in that district to an extent undreamed of. 
The young wasps when hatched out do the 
nursing, building, protecting, procuring, 
in fact, the whole work connected with the 
upkeep of their little city. The jaws of 
the wasp are very hard and horny in their 
substance, and work laterally or sideways ; 
thus in tearing up substances, biting, or 
cutting, they are able to use them on hard 
materials. They are provided with 
compound eyes, with a large number of 
lenses, the eyes which you can see, and 
which enable them to see all around them 
during their flight, and also with three 
simple, single eyes, between these, which 
