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Mud dauber   /məd dˈaʊbər/   Listen
Mud dauber

noun
1.
Wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae.





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... called here the "mud-dauber," from its habit of narrowing the hole of a starling's old nest, with mud, for its own use as a nesting-place, is a more common bird in the Forest than in Worcestershire. It is a provident bird, firmly wedging hazel ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory


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