23 SEPTEMBER 1911, Page 16

RATS AND WASPS.

To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —A friend of mine states that recently she observed a rat come regularly to the window, where a jar of beer and sugar was placed on the sill for the purpose of attracting the wasps. The rat would tentatively insert its paw into the jar (as if it feared to be stung), extracting a wasp and proceeding to eat it—discarding the head and tail precisely in the same manner as we should eat shrimps ! Are any of your readers acquainted with the fact that wasps form an article of the diet