mud dauber

1. 1.

   wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae

   Broadersphecoid wasp

   Part ofSphecidae

Questions about mud dauber

What does mud dauber mean?

mud dauber means "wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae".

Is mud dauber a common word?

mud dauber 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.