Show Wasp Was the First to toMake Make Paper From Fion Pulp The principle of t I paper making from O lI wood pulp has been use use- by the humble humble humble hum hum- ble wasp f for r seY several l thousands of ot years years a. a The wasps nest Is- Is a coila constructed con coil of papier mache In Us construction con con- con construction the queen of ot the swarm swarm utilizes the modern method of converting con con converting woody tissue Into thin sheets ts She constructs a cluster of five or six cells from the frayed fiber ber fr from m weather-beaten weather boards or dead trees or even efen even bits of ot m man made n-ma n e paper This Thle cluster she provides with a waterproof paper Jer umbrella teen ben she lays her ber first batch of eggs egga and t nd proceeds to to to build another tier of ot cells to the bottom of the suspended pyramid do doubling the number of ot ce cells ls In the e second tier and adds correspondingly correspondingly correspond to the outside protective wall whiCh Is made up of a alternate ternate layers layer of or paper and dead air like the thermos bottle Detroit News I I |