[f. WASP sb. + -LING1.] A young wasp.
1885. H. C. McCook, Tenants of Old Farm, 433. Thus the last baby waspling falls heir to the cradle of its predecessor, as is often the case with our own infants.
1893. Standard, 7 Sept., 7/1. They prey on each other, and millions, enclosed in little clay sarcophagi, serve as food for a ‘waspling worm.’
1905. Peckham, Wasps Social & Solitary, 80. No waspling in our charge ever died from lack of nourishment—on that score our consciences are clear. Ibid., 90. Startle it ever so slightly and the waspling retreats by way of its web, descending again only when everything is quiet.
