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My Studio Neighbors
·
W. Hamilton Gibson
39
Not
an
hour
after
this
episode
I
was
treated
to
another
of
even
more
interest.
As
I
took
my
seat
upon
the
door-step
I
started
into
flight
a
big
black
wasp,
upon
whose
doings
I
had
evidently
been
intruding.
This
wasp
was
much
larger
than
the
one
just
described,
being
about
an
inch
in
length.
Its
wings
were
pale
brown
and
its
body
jet-black,
with
sundry
small
yellowish
spots
about
the
thorax.
But
its
most
conspicuous
feature,
and
one
which
would
ever
fix
the
identity
of
the
creature,
was
the
long,
slender,
wire-like
waist,
occupying
a
quarter
of
the
length
of
its
entire
body.
In
a
moment
or
two
the
wasp
had
returned,
and
stood
at
the
mouth
of
the
shallow
pit.
Eying
me
intently
for
a
space,
and
satisfied
that
there
was
nothing
to
fear,
she
dived
into
the
hollow
and
began
to
excavate,
turning
round
and
round
as
she
gnawed
the
earth
at
the
bottom,
and
shovelling
it
out
with
her
spiked
legs.
Now
and
then
she
would
back
out
of
the
burrow
to
reconnoitre,
and
her
alert
attitude
at
such
times
was
very
amusing--her
antennae
drooping
towards
the
burrow
and
in
incessant
motion;
the
abdomen
on
its
long
wire
stem
bobbing
up
and
down
at
regular
intervals,
accompanied
by
a
flipping
motion
of
the
wings;
the
short
fore
legs,
one
or
both,
upraised
with
comical
effect.
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