digger-wasp

Their illustrative beauty is enhanced by their wide variety, for they grade from counterparts of highly civilized men down to a savage among insects, such as the strictly solitary digger-wasp, whose instincts served to exemplify the insect type of "mentality" in the discussions of the preceding chapter.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

Here, for instance, was an overwhelming contingent of the whole tough gang of wasps and hornets -- brown wasps from under the eaves and fences; black hornets from the big paper nests; yellow-jackets from where you please; deep steel-blue wire-waisted wasps from the mud cells in the garret, to say nothing of an occasional longer-waisted digger-wasp, and

My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

A small digger-wasp likes this grass stem too, but instead of exchanging courtesies on the subject, the wasp proceeds to bite the ant's head off without ceremony, and continues sipping at the stem as though decapitation were a mere casual incident in its daily walk.

My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

a big black digger-wasp, who now concludes to cut it short.

My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873