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IT might interest Dr. E. Bonavia (November 13, p. 29) to know that it is not an unusual circumstance to find the larvæ of the house-fly in the nests of Vespa vulgaris and V. germanica feeding upon the live bodies of the larvæ and pupæ of the wasps. Occasionally I have found nests in the summer-time quite deserted by the wasps, all the pupæ in the cells having been eaten by the maggots of house-flies and other Diptera.
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ELLIOTT, F. Fly-Maggots Feeding on Caterpillars. Nature 31, 54 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031054e0
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