[7] Cf. The Life of the Spider: chaps. vi. and vii.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[8] A family of Digger Wasps of whom the larger species burrow in the ground and the smaller in the pith of plants or in rotten wood.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[9] Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande (1732–1807), the astronomer. Even after he had achieved his reputation, he sought means, outside the domain of science, to make himself talked about and found these in the display partly of odd tastes, such as that for eating Spiders and caterpillars, and partly of atheistical opinions.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[10] Or Pompilus: vide supra.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[11] For the Scolia, cf. The Life and Love of the Insect: chap. xi.; for the Sphex, cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. iv. to x.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[12] .177 by .039 inch.—Translator’s Note. [↑]
[13] For the Cerceris, cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. i. to iii; for the Philanthus, or Bee-eating Wasp, cf. Social Life in the Insect World: chap. xiii. Some of the other Wasps mentioned above will form the subject of chapters in a later volume of this series entitled More Hunting Wasps.—Translator’s Note. [↑]