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Definition of Mud dauber
1. Noun. Wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mud Dauber
Literary usage of Mud dauber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"It is certainly a practical joke with justice in it, that these ferocious creatures
lie Nests of a mud-dauber on the back of a picture frame. ..."
2. The American Entomologist edited by Benjamin Dann Walsh, Charles V Riley, George Vasey (1868)
"Why should the clay-cell, in which the Black Wasp reare its young, be so manifestly
the work of the Mud-dauber, t hat no difference whatever can be ..."
3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1908)
"I have made an examination of mud-dauber nests in two localities where I am
familiar with the spider fauna. First, let us consider that in any region there ..."
4. Language Lessons by James Will Sewell (1903)
"This is the common " mud dauber," which is something like a hornet. When the big
spider sees a mud dauber, it tries to run and hide. The mud dauber darts ..."
5. The Candle from Under the Bushel: (Luke Xi, 33) ; Or, Thirteen Hundred and by William Hart (1889)
"... mud-dauber, is made to kidnap the spider. The larger (carnivorous) fowls of
the air are made to devour the smaller, and the smaller to devour worms and ..."
6. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"It is certainly a practical joke with justice in it, that these ferocious creatures
lie Nests of a mud-dauber on the back of a picture frame. ..."
7. The American Entomologist edited by Benjamin Dann Walsh, Charles V Riley, George Vasey (1868)
"Why should the clay-cell, in which the Black Wasp reare its young, be so manifestly
the work of the Mud-dauber, t hat no difference whatever can be ..."
8. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1908)
"I have made an examination of mud-dauber nests in two localities where I am
familiar with the spider fauna. First, let us consider that in any region there ..."
9. Language Lessons by James Will Sewell (1903)
"This is the common " mud dauber," which is something like a hornet. When the big
spider sees a mud dauber, it tries to run and hide. The mud dauber darts ..."
10. The Candle from Under the Bushel: (Luke Xi, 33) ; Or, Thirteen Hundred and by William Hart (1889)
"... mud-dauber, is made to kidnap the spider. The larger (carnivorous) fowls of
the air are made to devour the smaller, and the smaller to devour worms and ..."
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