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Show Mud Houses Built By Wasps. A nnturallst has thus described tho hnblts of a siiecles of wasp that makes It's nest of mud, says tho Dundee Advertiser Ad-vertiser The mud of which the nest's are composed, ho said, Is n' carried for home distance, and It Is essential for them to uso good, stiff clay At the edge of somo pond or stream you may see these Insects roll sticky little balls out of tho stiff mud with their strong jaws With this heavy load of mud they rise slowly, and, having gained some height, thoy got their bearings and fly In a straight lino to their nest In this they resemble resem-ble tho bees; Indeed, all tho wasps and bees beem to havo a wonderful factulty for ft) Ing directly homo from nny point. When tho wasp has gained the plnco selected for a building slto Bho puts the tiny ball of mud against tho wall of the building nnd ribs It tight by moving hoi head from side to sldo very rapid!) Tho outer surface of the nest shows a series of rings, with sharply donnod lines betwoon most of them, but tho Interior "is always al-ways eitrumely smooth nnd almost a perfect cylinder 'Whllo building hor nest the Insect continual!) runs In and out of tho tiny cylinder, examining It minutely with her "feelers" If a rough place Is felt on the Inner surface sur-face sho carefully BOts to work and rubs It smooth. When the cyltndor Is finished tho wasp goes hunting for spiders. |