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YOUR correspondent at p. 385, vol. xxx., may be informed that in this part of the world wasps enter dwellings by the open windows in summer-time, and hunt house-flies unmercifully, leaving the dead flies in hundreds on the floors, ready to be swept into a dustpan. This occurs only in the country, and where wasps' nests are near by. Westwood quotes from St. John's “Letters to an American Farmer” that: “The Americans, aware of their (wasps') service in destroying flies, sometimes suspend a hornets' nest in their parlours” (Introduction to “Modern Classification of Insects,” ii. p. 246, foot-note).
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LAWSON, G. Wasps as Fly-Killers. Nature 30, 539 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030539d0
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