. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. THE MUD WASP. 479 derful home. As is always the case with pensile nests, the foun- dation is laid at the top, thus carrying out Dean Swift's sugges- tion for a new patent in architecture. A large quantity of clay is worked round the chosen branch, and made very strong, in or- der to sustain the heavy weight which will be suspended from it. This clay foundation is wonderfully hard, though very brittle, this latter quality being probably due to the long resid
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. THE MUD WASP. 479 derful home. As is always the case with pensile nests, the foun- dation is laid at the top, thus carrying out Dean Swift's sugges- tion for a new patent in architecture. A large quantity of clay is worked round the chosen branch, and made very strong, in or- der to sustain the heavy weight which will be suspended from it. This clay foundation is wonderfully hard, though very brittle, this latter quality being probably due to the long residence in a room which is always kept warm and dry by artificial means. In the open air, and in the ever-damp, though hot atmosphere of tropical America, the clay would probably be much tougher, without losing the necessary Mud Wasp. The combs are not flat, like those of an ordinary wasp-nest, but are very much curved, so that when the nest is laid open they al- most follow the curve of the walls. This peculiar form of the comb is shown in the illustration. The cells are not very Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). New York : Harper & Brothers
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