Phrase Hound found 32 phrases and 3 compound words that contain wasps. The most common are listed below. Open wasps in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 32
- Wasps NestA hamlet in Nocton parish, North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0864).
- digger waspsplural of digger wasp: Any of several solitary, predatory wasps, of the families Sphecidae or Crabronidae, that nest in the soil.
- Euro-waspsplural of Euro-wasp
- fig waspsplural of fig wasp: Any wasp associated with figs, of superfamily Chalcidoidea, including many non-pollinaters.
- gall waspsplural of gall wasp: Any insect of the family Cynipidae, whose larvae damage plants, particularly oak trees, creating galls.
- mason waspsplural of mason wasp: A potter wasp.
- paper waspsplural of paper wasp: Any wasp in the vespid subfamily Polistinae, known for making paper-like nests out of fibers from dead wood and plant stems.
- potter waspsplural of potter wasp: A wasp of a group in the subfamily Eumeninae of family Vespidae.
- sand waspsplural of sand wasp: A predatory crabronid wasp that builds burrowlike nests in the ground:
- spider waspsplural of spider wasp: Any of the solitary wasps in the Pompilidae family, which feed on spiders; a pompilid.
- wood waspsplural of wood wasp: Any of various not closely related insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.
- tarantula waspsplural of tarantula wasp: A kind of spider wasp (of the family Pompilidae), with a painful sting, that deposits an egg on its prey, which include tarantulas, the larvae feeding from the living prey.
- ichneumon waspsplural of ichneumon wasp: A member of family Ichneumonidae of parasitic wasps whose larvae feed on other live insect larvae.
- chalcid waspsplural of chalcid wasp: chalcid
- cuckoo waspsplural of cuckoo wasp: Any of the many wasps of the family Chrysididae that are kleptoparasites or parasitoids and are often brightly coloured.
- honey waspsplural of honey wasp: A wasp of the genus Brachygastra, native to the Americas.
- leaf waspsplural of leaf wasp: Synonym of sawfly (Symphyta spp.)
- media waspsplural of media wasp: A large European wasp, Dolichovespula media, that became established in Britain in the 1980s
- mud waspsplural of mud wasp: Synonym of mud dauber (“type of wasp”).
- non-WASPsplural of non-WASP: One who is not a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant).
- pollen waspsplural of pollen wasp: Any wasp in the vespid subfamily Masarinae, which are unique among the vespids in feeding their larvae with pollen and nectar, instead of with insects.
- sea waspsplural of sea wasp: Any of several marine stinging box jellyfish found in north east Australia and South East Asia, some deadly, especially Chironex fleckeri, Carukia barnesi, and Malo kingi.
- solitary waspsplural of solitary wasp: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see solitary, wasp.
- umbrella waspsplural of umbrella wasp: Any of certain kinds of paper wasp that build a nest resembling an upside-down umbrella.
- warrior waspsplural of warrior wasp: Any of various wasps of ferocious appearance and aggressive behavior, especially in taxa:
Compound words 3
- galliwaspsplural of galliwasp: Any of the lizards in the genus Celestus.
- gallwaspsplural of gallwasp: Any insect of the family Cynipidae, whose larvae damage plants, particularly oak trees, creating galls.
- woodwaspsplural of woodwasp: Any of various not closely related insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.