spiders' webs. 
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7. Wasps, like bees, help each other to build 
nests which have numbers of six-sided cells. The 
nests are mostly found in the ground, or hanging 
from a tree. They are made of mud, or of some- 
thing very much like paper, which the wasps 
prepare by chewing fine threads of wood. The 
Nest of Paper-making Wasp. 
combs are placed flat, not upright, as in bees' 
nests. 
8. All the cells in a wasp's nest are made for 
holding eggs, for the wasps do not store up food 
as bees do. 
SPIDERS' WEBS. 
1. Look here, Sam," cried Lucy to her brother, 
as they came home from school one day. Come 
quickly!" 
Sam ran to the spot just in time to see a spider 
