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Every (lory is, as it were, a market-place, where 
the citizens may take their walks*. The cells are 
hexagonal. 
It is the cradle in which the mother goes on to 
lay eggs of neuter wafps, to the number of fifteen or 
fixteen thoufand ; after which, fhe depofits three 
hundred of females, and as many of males. 
The firft-hatched take great' care of thofe after- 
born, feeding them firft with the juice of fruits and 
meats, afterwards with the carcafes of infers* 
The caterers provide for the labourers. Each takes 
his own portion ; there is no difpute, nor fighting. 
Tne wafps now live in peace among themfelves, 
like the bees, but they make war upon us, robbing 
us of our fruits, cutting the throats of our bees, to 
pofiefs themfelves of their honey, plundering their 
hives, and living in plenty. 
Towards Oftober, when provifions grow fcarce, 
the wafps feem to be feized with rage, and the neft is 
a fcene of horror. They tear from their cradles eggs, 
larvae, chryfaiids, and the new-born infects, without 
Slewing mercy to any. 
They next fight againft one another. 
Ehus tne greater part perifli i fome few females 
efcape, which cut-live the winter, and, in the en- 
fuing fpring, become the founders of new republics. 
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