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Show y Wasp Build Strong House Scientists claim they have learned some Important secrets from the work done by the paper-making wasp. It constructs Its houses from paper of Its own making that Is durable to an unusual degree. The wood pulp paper made by man today Is modeled exactly exact-ly after the paper made by the wa9p and the two qualities are almost Identical, Iden-tical, the Ohio State Journal says. The paper Is strong, so that when the large wasp house, with Its many slx-slded cells, Is completed, the edifice edi-fice swings from two or three twigs. It Is held there safely by paper cables and anchored so firmly that winds are unable to dislodge It for years 'after the wasps have deserted It, leaving the top-shaped bag swinging In the winds. |