mud-dauber

"Maybe they store them up, like mud-dauber wasps store spiders," Mark said jokingly.

Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

And it explained the countless things which happily enable a commander to keep himself as busy as a mud-dauber, however idle the camp or however torn his own heart.

Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

I have kept alive in my room specimens of _Heliconidæ_ for six and eight months, while mud-dauber wasps have repeatedly wintered in my room, and have witnessed the outcomings of spring broods.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

I have never known a mud-dauber to make a mistake in her computation, although I have endeavored to puzzle this little arithmetician time and again.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

A mud-dauber wasp built a nest in my room, and used an open ventilating window as an entrance and exit.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

A wasp of the variety commonly called "mud-dauber" last summer built her nest on the ceiling of my room in one corner.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

Although ants, bees, and wasps have highly developed memories, and seem to be likewise in possession of that peculiar function of the mind called by some psychologists "unconscious memory," through which they are, probably, enabled to transmit impressions of comparatively recent experiences to their offspring, I hardly think that the mud-dauber was influenced in her actions by any such inherited instinct.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881