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doubt for good ends and purpofes, with which we 
may not be well acquainted, but mod; likely, for the 
prey and food of other animals. 
One kind of wafp fabricates an oblong neft of pa- 
per-like compofition full of cells for the harbour of 
its young, and hangs it on the branch of a tree. 
Some build nefts of clay, and feed their young 
with fpiders ; others fuftain them with large green 
grafshoppers : then there are thofe, that build combs 
on the ground (like ours in England) to nourifh a 
numerous brood. 
But this yellowifh wafp takes a different method, 
with great pains digging a hole in the ground, lays its 
egg, which foon turns to a magot, then catches flj.es 
to lupport it, until it comes to maturity. 
The wifdom of Providence is admirable, by giving 
annually a check to this prolific brood pf noxious 
infers, in permitting all the males to die, which are 
the mod numerous of the family ; only referving 
a few impregnated females of each fpecies, to conti- 
nue their race to another year. 
Whereas bees, whofe labours are fo beneficial to 
mankind, always furvive the winter to raife new co- 
lonies. 
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