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A COUNTRY READER. 



This is made by the insect gnawing and crushing 

 decaying wood, especially bark, with its jaws 

 and mixing the crushed material with its saliva. 

 In this way a pulp is made 

 which is used in building the 

 nest, and it dries into a kind 

 of paper. 



During the summer the 

 larvae of the wasps are fed 

 by the workers with freshly 

 chewed insects, or with honey. 



Wasps do not suck nectar from flowers as do 

 bees, but steal it from certain bees, or else they 

 form it in their stomach from sugary material 

 drawn from sweet fruits. 



Wasps, as I dare say some of you know from 

 experience, sting badly, but they do not sting 

 unless attacked, or in defence of their nest. 



If a wasp flies about you do not hit at it, 



