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Show The Spider-Watpa The members of the Insect family Pompilidae are known as spider wasps ( because they prolsion their nests with spiders. Most of these wasps make their nest In the ground. As Coin-stock Coin-stock tells us In his Introduction to Entomology, the wasp first finds a spider and stings It until it Is paralyzed. para-lyzed. It then digs a burrow, which is enlarged at the lower end, form-Inrr form-Inrr a cell for the reception of the spider. The spider Is then dragged uWn Into the cell and an egg attached at-tached to It; then the passage leading to It Is filled with earth. Among the giants of this family are the well-known well-known tarantula hawks of the genus I'ojisis of the Southwest, which store their burrows with tarantulas. Many a hard-fought bailie do these spider-wasps spider-wasps have with these enormous spiders spi-ders and sometimes they are conquered con-quered and Ignomlnlo.usly eaten. |