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I HAVE read with interest the letter of Miss Everett in your issue of August 31 on dogs eating wasps, as I have a poodle which also eats them, with evident satisfaction. He generally catches them alive, but will also pick them up from the floor when recently killed; he evidently suffers somewhat from the sting, but only for ten or fifteen seconds.
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VENABLES, R. Habits of Dogs. Nature 87, 382 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087382b0
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