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Stores. — The walls of the cells are made of wax, and in the 
cells the bees store the honey which they make from the sweet 
juices of the flowers. The bees form "bee-bread" from the yellow 
flower-dust which clings to their hairy legs. 
Wa,sps. — Wasps build nests on trees or in the ground. The 
nests are made of mud, or of wood chewed into a kind of papei'. 
Wasps do not store up food as bees do. 
SPIDERS (pp. 51, 55). 
Description. — The spider is not an insect, for it has eight 
jointed legs, and insects have only six. Besides, its body is in only 
two parts, the head and chest together forming one part, and the 
belly (or abdomen) the other. Again, insects have wings, spiders 
have not. Spiders are hatched from eggs, and are perfect spiders 
from the flrst. 
The jaws of spiders hold a poison, with which they kill their 
prey. Many spiders have spinnerets ; from these they pour out a 
juice, which at once hardens into silky threads. 
Ha,bits. — Of the silky threads wehs are made. Some spiders 
make flat round webs to entrap insects, others spin long threads in 
the grass. The gossamer spider drifts through the air at the end of 
its long threads; the trap-door spider lines a hole in the ground 
with its silk, and goes forth from this hiding-place to hunt for prey. 
Many spiders lay their eggs in bags made of the silken threads. 
Tiie Scorpion is in the same class of animals as the spider. 
It has a ringed body, and eight legs. At the end of its body is a 
kind of claw, with which it stings. It has a pair of nipping claws 
for holding its prey, and is covered with a horny shell. 
CKABS AND LOBSTERS (p. 57). 
Description.— Crabs and lobsters are jointed-limbed animals, 
as insects and spiders also are. They have ten legs, the front 
pair having large nipping claws. They are covered with a hard 
crust, or shell. Crabs are often described as " short- tailed and 
iobster,'? as long-tailed But what is thus called the " tail " is 
really the belly (or abdomen). The lobster has a broad fin at the 
