mud-wasp

And if these but knew of the presence of this boy in his tower room, some dark night that tower would be rocked by an exploding bomb and the boy in his room would be shaken to earth like a young mud-wasp in his nest.

Curlie Carson Listens In 1918

They peeped into the little globular houses, like mud-wasp nests, and wondered if these had been store-places for grain, or baby cribs, or what; and they crawled into the larger houses and laughed when they bumped their heads on the low roofs, and they dug in the dust of the floors.

Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905

Softly behind him creeps a brown wasp (_Polistes_), with his mouth watering, while from the opposite quarter a steel-blue mud-wasp approaches, with apparently similar designs.

My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

It consists of a number of monotonous notes in rapid succession, similar to those emitted by the mud-wasp when working her mortar and joining it to her cells, to raise miss-wasps.

A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees 1823