Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1908 — Wasps on a Drunk. [ARTICLE]

Wasps on a Drunk.

Culver Citizen. ' Residents of the west part of town have recently been watching with some amusement the antics of the swarms of wasps which keep themselves In a perpetual* state of Intoxication by imbibing the juice of the fermented apples which, are rotting- In an orchard. The wasps go to the * orchards in legions, suck themgplves full of cider and then start back for their homes with- a jigger on that would be the envy of a crowd of hoboes. Evidently happy as lords, they zig-zag their Mg it this way and that, with sudden, toppling lunges to one side or the other, and all the time keeping up a buzzing that in the wasp language is plainly enough a flow of maudlin screeches and laughter. Soon a portion of them lose their power of locomotion and ; after a few dizzy whirls drop by the way-side and lie helpless, while others, with stronger heads, will surge along for'a time until they bump up against a house where they too drop in a struggling mess to the ground, roll over end are dead to the world. As soon as nature reasserts itself and they lecover consciousness they go back to the orchard and load up again.