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sphecoid
Any of various solitary wasps; such as:
- Mason wasp, a wasp that constructs nests of hardened mud or clay for the young.
- Digger wasp, a wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae.
- Mud dauber, a wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae.
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sphec-, spheco-, sphek-, spheko-
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