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Updated: May 14, 2025
She had not power to fight the bird's beak, and her poison-dagger was useless here; nor do fly-catchers often miss. This, however, was an occasion when one of them did by an eighth of an inch and only some electric-spark-like dodging on the part of the insect in the air made even that one miss possible. It was so quick, you could not see what happened.
The battle that followed was awful. Almost at the start the two insects, grappling, fell headlong to the excavation the queen had made below the city, and there, rolling over and over, continued the struggle in the dark among the refuse, the queen eternally feeling with her poison-dagger for a space to drive home her death-blow between the other's smooth, shining armor-plates; the cricket eternally endeavoring to behead the queen between its awful jaws.
In the house I have seen her catch one by the wings on a window and, holding it carefully ask me to watch her captive sometimes a a great daredevil hornet, lion-maned as he lay stabbing with his poison-dagger. "Now," said she, "he is angry; he will remember. If I release him he will sting me when I come near him again. So I do not permit him to live I kill him."
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