Wasp by Richard Jones

Author:Richard Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

Cover of Puck magazine from November 1904, when Russia seemed to be running amok – its ambitions over Manchuria and Korea led to the Russo–Japanese War and the following year there was a national uprising and revolution. The wasp, representing Japan, perhaps signifies Russia’s misguided flailings.

Exquisite painting of a wasp nest by famed nature artist Edward Julius Detmold (1883–1957), who illustrated the English composite translation of French entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921).

Anyone who has ever properly examined a hornets’ nest at close quarters, without kicking it or stirring it, will concur that the largest of wasps has the smallest of tempers. This lovely anecdote from Edwardian naturalist and writer Edward Step illustrates this so well:

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