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Digger wasp   /dˈɪgər wɑsp/   Listen
Digger wasp

noun
1.
Solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae.





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"Digger wasp" Quotes from Famous Books



... the English language the brilliancy of which is so sustained. Orthodoxy is a rapid torrent of epigrammatically expressed arguments. Chesterton's method in writing it is that of the digger wasp. This intelligent creature carries on the survival of the fittest controversy by paralyzing its opponent first, and then proceeding to lay the eggs from which future fitness will proceed in the unresisting ...
— G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study • Julius West


Words linked to "Digger wasp" :   sphecoid, cicada killer, Sphecius speciosis, sphecoid wasp


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