Note 5 — Chapter I · THE CETONIÆ
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
These others are Wasps, Polistes,5 hot-tempered swashbucklers. When these intolerant creatures are abroad, peaceful insects withdraw and establish themselves elsewhere. Even the Hive-Bee, predominating in numbers and ever ready to unsheathe her sting, makes way for them, busy as she is gathering in the harvest.