The Spinners’ Hnemies 
with a ball of mud. The imprisoned 
spiders furnish a rich feast for the 
young wasp which hatches from the 
ego. 
In California there is a large wasp 
known as the tarantula-killer, a beauti- 
ful creature with a shining 
body. She prover. 
sions her cell, & 
which is made in the 
ground, with one large (ep 
eround-spider, falsely called “\~ 
a tarantula. 
When her cell is made, 
she, like her smaller rela- — Ztherene \ 
tive, starts out in search of 9 ”"™*" °F" 
a spider. When she finds the large 
Spinner, a terrible battle always takes 
place, in which the claws and poison- 
fang of the spider are pitted against 
the sting of the wasp. Sometimes the 
spider is victorious, but more often 
the sting of the wasp prevails, and the 
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