English Essay on “The Wasp” English Essay-Paragraph-Speech for Class 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 CBSE Students and competitive Examination.

The Wasp

At first sight, the wasp and the bee are quite like each other. At first touch too they are alike for each may give you a very sharp sting.

The wasp has thinner and longer body than the bee: it is more brightly coloured too and is much hairy.

Wasps are loft to make their own homes and their homes are very good ones indeed. Most often wasps make their nests in holes in the ground but sometimes you may find one hanging in a sheltered spot under the edge of a roof. It looks something like a lantern of grey paper.

In early spring a mother wasp or queen wasp, as she is called, wakes from her long winter sleep. When she has chosen a place for her nest, she begins building at once. Her nest is made of paper. The paper is made by herself by chewing up tiny bits of wood which she has scraped from tree trunk or fence post.

Although the nest is made of paper, it is strong to keep out rain and wind.

Men have been glad to take a lesson in paper making from the wasps. Most of our newspapers are printed on paper made from wood. Yet our paper makers cannot made out of wood, any paper as fine as that made by these clever little insects.

When the nest is strong enough, the mother wasp builds a few cells in it. These cells, which are realty small rooms, are quite like the cells of a bee’s honeycomb -except that they are made of paper and not of wax.

In each cell a queen wasp lays a tiny white egg After a week or more, these eggs hatch and become wax-grubs. Another week passes and the grubs turn into young wasps.

The mother wasp during this time is very busy for she had to make the nest larger, build more cells in which to lay more eggs. She had also to find food for the young grubs that are very hungry.

But the young wasps are soon able to help the mother wasp in her house work. First they look or the grubs and later they fly off in search of food or to fetch tiny pieces of wood to enlarge their homes.

Wasps eat the juices of ripe fruit and stolen jam and honey and sip the honey from flowers. During the cold winter, the wasps are short of food and they begin to ‘die of cold and hunger for they have no store of food.

When spring comes to call the earth to life again, each of surviving female wasps become a queen wasp, and begin to build a nest for itself.