
Lhe Spinners’ Hnemies 
with a ball of mud. The imprisoned 
spiders furnish a rich feast for the 
young wasp which hatches from the 
crexey 
In California there is a large wasp 
known as the tarantula-killer, : beauti- 
ful creature with a aie 
body. She provi 
sions her cell, 
which is made in the WiecN SNS 
ground, with one large (a i va 
eround-spider, falsely called “\~ | 
a tarantula. \ 
When her cell is made, \ 
she, like her smaller rela- ae af 
tive, starts out in search of 9 "#2" 
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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