So far all we know of the Philanthus concerns her talent for murder.

Let us consider her as a mother.

We have seen her hunt on her own account; let us now watch her hunt for her offspring, for the race.

Nothing is simpler than to distinguish between the two kinds of hunting.

When the insect wants a few good mouthfuls of honey and nothing else, she abandons the bee contemptuously when she has emptied its stomach.