digger wasp

1. 1.

   solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae

   Broadersphecoid wasp

   Narrowercicada killer

Questions about digger wasp

What does digger wasp mean?

digger wasp means "solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae".

Is digger wasp a common word?

digger wasp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.