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What do wasps build their nests out of?

One of the species of the wasp family is called hornets. They have a thick body, usually black or dark brown, with bright white or yellow markings. Therefore, they are also called "yellow jackets". Hornets are social insects. They live in groups and build nests. If their nests are attacked, they become very angry and sting the attacker painfully. Therefore, there is such an expression: "Angry as a wasp."

Hornets build large nests, sometimes up to a foot long, with a hole at the base. These nests are attached to the branches of a tree or bush, and sometimes under the overhanging roofs of buildings. What do hornets build their houses from? From paper! It must be said that the hornets are the first paper producers on Earth. They make paper from wood pulp.

Hornets collect wood from planks and trees that have been stripped of their bark. When harvesting wood, the wasps move backwards, scraping the wood with their jaws and wetting it as they come in. This forms round balls of paper pulp. When building a nest, the balls are pulled into plates.

Most people do not like hornets because they are afraid of their bites. They also harm fruits. But in reality, wasps are human friends, they help to destroy flies and other harmful insects.

Author: Likum A.

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Man has always been looking for ways to explain life, what is happening around him. In ancient times, for this reason, myths were created in which nature was controlled by the spirit.

The ancient Greeks were the first to think about the forces of nature not under the influence of the spirit, but as things really are. But they tried to discover the truth only by observing and searching for causes, without organizing experiments. Therefore, many mistakes were made, many theories were adopted that explained a large number of phenomena, but by no means all.

In the 400th century, Roger Bacon resorted to experiment, not just causation, to test his theories, and nearly XNUMX years later, Sir Francis Bacon wrote The New Method, which laid down the principles of modern scientific methods. The use of the scientific method makes the body of knowledge a science. Unlike the old method of contemplation and reflection, the new method is based on careful experimentation and precise measurement.

Not all fields of science can use the same methods. A chemist can experiment with substances and the forces acting on them in the laboratory. And an astronomer cannot conduct experiments with celestial bodies. But both of them resort to the scientific method.

The first thing a scientist does when approaching a problem is to establish what is already known and try to establish new facts. He develops a working theory, or hypothesis, that explains certain results. He then measures, tests, and experiments to see if the hypothesis works. If so, then it becomes a proven theory. Or a scientist may wait until his work is finished and then formulate a theory. But a theory is not considered proven until it becomes obvious that there is no other theory capable of explaining the known facts.

A scientist never considers something as proven once and for all. A theory or law is considered true only as long as it explains all known facts. But science knows that new facts may be discovered that may require a change in theory.

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