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How much more comprehensible and interesting their life would become! But "when the hymenopteron breaks its cocoon, where are its masters! Its predecessors have long ago disappeared. How then can it receive education by example?" Let us return to Fabre's laboratory, to the covers of wire-gauze, and note what becomes, at the approach of winter, of the survivors of the vespine city.
Sometimes the passers-by hasten to the invalid to devour him." In the republic of the wasps "the grubs recognized as incurable are pitilessly torn from their place and dragged out of the nest. Woe to the sick! they are helpless and at once expelled." When the winter comes all the larvae are massacred, and the whole vespine city ends in a horrible tragedy.
It represents to them a dainty which they enjoy over and above the more substantial fare provided by the corpses. The bumblebee fly, that sanitary inspector of the Vespine city, fulfils a double office: she wipes the wasp's children and she rids the nest of its dead.
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