mud-dauber

mud´-daub`er

A wasp of the family Sphegidae (Sphecidae) which builds a nest of mud and stores insects and spiders in it; a digger-wasp.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Investigators believe mud-dauber wasps are the culprits behind a fire that destroyed a large barn near Fern Ridge Dam on Wednesday morning.

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Investigators concluded that mud-dauber wasps nested in the aircraft's pitot tubes and disabled the air-speed sensors while it was parked on the tarmac.

A natural history of airports: air travel's carbon emissions are high profile, but the local ecological impacts often fly under the radar

Predatory interactions between mud-dauber wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) and Argiope (Araneae, Araneidae) in captivity.

An observation of the parasitoid Melittobia australica Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and its host, the solitary wasp Sceliphron Asiaticum (Linnaeus) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)

Bionomics of the organ-pipe mud-dauber, Trypoxylon politum (Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea).

Melittobia digitata Dahms (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and Monodontomerus mexicanus Gahan (Hym.: Pteromalidae) on a nest of Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) mexicanum (Saussure) (Hym.: Crabronidae) collected near xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

Silk mediated defense by an orb web spider against predatory mud-dauber wasps.

Araneus expletus (Araneae, Araneidae): another stabilimentum that does not function to attract prey

I began to make small coiled rooms or domes that were nest-like, inspired by forms in nature such as a mud-dauber wasp's coiled clay nest."