any of several wasps that construct their nests of material resembling pasteboard; cf. paper wasp n. at paper, n. adj.compounds 2.

A locust-killing wasp. U.S.

any of various small, solitary, usually black wasps, which hunt flies as food for their larvae; esp. one of the sphecid subfamily Nyssoninae.

= media wasp, n.

A large tree-nesting social wasp, Dolichovespula media, native to continental Europe, which became established in Britain in the 1980s. Also called…