What do wasps use to build their nests?
Paper was invented in China and, we are told, the Chinese learned to make it from the wasps. For most of the wasps nest we see out in the open are made of paper. The main ingredient in the recipe is cellulose, or woody plant fiber. This is the sane ingredient from which we make paper. Mankind discovered this recipe only a few thousar5 years ago. Wasps have been making paper nests for millions of years. Other wasps were making nests of mud, stones aid mortar long before the human family came to live in the world. The wasps that build paper nests are called social insects, for they live together in large families or colonies. The wasps that use mud, stones and mortar are called solitary insects, for they live by themselves, Many wasps help to build the paper nests which are sometimes six feet wide,, Maybe you have seen one a foot wide, hanging like an upside down mushroom high in a tree. The first few cells of a new nest ere made by the queen wasp, All tI B rest are made by the worker wa
