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Scarcity of Wasps

Nature volume 98, page 109 (1916)Cite this article

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IT would be interesting to know whether the scarcity of wasps which is so marked in this district is general. I have seen only one wasp here this season. I am informed that sixty-seven queens were destroyed in one week this spring on the Earl of Crewe's estate, but this cannot fully account for the absence of wasps. Also, while at Bordon (Hants.) for three weeks in August I saw only one wasp.

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