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A genus of wasps

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  • I even had dreams of sphex and kodiac bears fights to death.
  • The music seemed to fascinate him, to paralyse his will, even as the sphex paralyses its victim with its sting.
  • Lieutenant Hutton has described a sphex with similar habits in India, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, vol. i, p. 555. 19.
  • I think one way for you to think about what ID needs to do is to think of a way to decide if something has flexible (human-like) or non-flexible (sphex-wasp-like)...
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