100 WASPS AND THEIR WAYS 



cells are large enough she deposits an 

 oblong white egg in each, placing it in 

 an angle of the cell and about one half or 

 two thirds down, or what will be one half 

 or two thirds down when the cell is 

 finished. 



Her cells are six-sided, and are like 

 honey-comb cells, excepting that they are 

 made of paper instead of wax, and are 

 suspended mouth down instead of lying 

 on one side. 



Since the cells hang mouth down, one 

 naturally wonders why the eggs do not 

 fall out as soon as put in. 



The reason is that each is covered with 

 a sticky substance, so that it is glued 

 firmly to the cell wall. 



The ancients had as little idea of the 

 origin of wasps as they had of the origin 

 of bees, and while they believed the bees 

 were bred from the decaying carcass of a 

 bull, the wasps, they tell us, came from the 

 dead body of an ass or a horse, the fierce 



