WASP ARCHITECTURE 



WASPS cling to the traditions of their 

 ancestors in nest-building. Each 

 species has its own inherited ideas on the 

 subject, and invariably builds in accord- 

 ance with those ideas. But while the 

 nests differ in certain fixed details, in a 

 broad general way they are all alike. All 

 are made of paper. All contain combs 

 enclosed by separate outer walls. 



The hornets build smooth and 

 handsome structures of paper that 

 can be peeled off in large sheets 

 and they generally have but one 

 entrance hole near the bottom. 

 Some of the yellow-jackets make 

 nests of coarse, friable materials, that break 

 at the slightest touch. Sometimes sand 

 is found in the paper of which wasps' 

 nests are built, and some yellow-jackets 



lay on their walls, not in large separate 



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