Limp and helpless, it could offer no further opposition to the will of its conqueror. For some moments the wasp remained motionless, and then, withdrawing her sting, she plunged it successively between the third and the second, and between the second and the first segments.
[Illustration: WASP PLUNGING HER STING INTO THE CATERPILLAR.
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The caterpillar was now left lying on the ground. For a moment the wasp circled above it and then, descending, seized it again, further back this time, and with great deliberation and nicety of action gave it four more stings, beginning between the ninth and tenth segments and progressing backward.
_Urnaria_, probably feeling-as we certainly did-reaction from the strain of the last few minutes, and a relief at the completion of her task, now rested from her labors.
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