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Vespa sp., devouring a fly. Full text of the short article:

Habit of Vespa. While going through a swamp filled with alder bushes I noticed, hanging in the middle of one, a wasp devouring a fly in the position shown in the drawing. The wasp hung down by one foot. The abdomen was bent up out of the way. The half-eaten fly was held by the front feet, while the other legs and wings stuck out carelessly in all directions. As the mandibles and antennae kept in rapid motion and the fly was turned over and over by the fore feet, the wasp swung slowly back and forth with the same appearance of comfort and enjoyment as a man eating an apple in a hammock. When the fly had been reduced to wings and shell the wasp let it drop, got up on the twig and flew away.
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Source Psyche 5: 54. http://psyche2.entclub.org/articles/5/5-054.pdf
Author James Henry Emerton

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