wood wasp

noun

1. another name for the horntail

Example Sentences

"This means that the sirex wood wasp can also be classified as venomous," says von Reumont.

From Science Daily

Sting was rather appropriately inspired by the humble female wood wasp, which uses a bendable, needle-like ovipositor to bore into wood and then lay her eggs.

From BBC

"You would not know the design started off with a wood wasp - and that is a strength," says Prof Vincent.

From BBC

It has a long and peculiar ovipositor with which it drills a hole into the tree and deposits the egg in a burrow of the Pigeon Horntail, a wood wasp that burrows into deciduous trees.

From Project Gutenberg

Probably he has found the larvæ which the wood wasp left there in the fall.

From Project Gutenberg