Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1911 — Wasps Against Files. [ARTICLE]

Wasps Against Files.

In the war against noxious Insects the employment of Insect allies Is a measure that Is coming rapidly Into vogue. Among these allies one of the most Important is the weep "betabe*.” because it has been found to be an Inveterate enemy of gloasina flies, which are the conveyors of infection for the incurable sleeping sickness ot Africa. It has been called "The Gloeslna Hunter of Dahomey,” dud, according to the observations of Doctor Bouffard at Bamako, It is the only hymenopterous insect which attacks these flies. The bembex performs Its work in true knight-errant fashion, flying round animals that are persecuted by the flies, darting upon them with a speed that almost defies the eye, and transfixing them with Its sting, after which It carries the victims to its nest as food for larvae.