When the trillions of periodical cicadas emerge in multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states next month, they will face a unique predator with murderous intent: cicada killer wasps. Cicada killer ...

Sep. 30—State officials have been bugged lately by people who have mistaken a large, orange insect they have encountered for another creature with a nefarious reputation. Danielle Evans, horticulture ...

It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green pattern on the back of the thorax) are making themselves known. The males, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They’re big. They buzz. Lately, these little flying critters spotted all over Albuquerque. We’re talking about Cicada Killer Wasps. Yes, that’s their real name — and if you’ve seen ...

Last week, I noticed a huge wasp perched on a dried-up cucumber leaf. It was a male cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. These beneficial wasps show up each year shortly after the annual cicadas ...

NEW YORK — There is an eerie single-mindedness in the way cicada killers fly. Perhaps it is just insect swagger, or it might be the narrow preoccupation with the task at hand, common to many insects ...

Large yellow and black wasps almost the size of a human thumb will soon be flying around the late Kentucky summer, hunting for cicadas. The cicada killer wasp is often mistaken for the so-called ...

(NBC Chicago) — There's no question that Illinois will be swarmed with cicadas this spring and summer, thanks to a rare, double emergence of two periodical cicada broods at once -- in addition to the ...

Cicada killer wasps are swarming the Carolinas, NBC Charlotte and pest control experts say. The intimidating insects range in size between one and a fourth inch and two inches, and experts say there's ...

The name sounds scary, but these wasps don’t want to hurt you — well, unless you’re a cicada. The first thing you’ll likely notice about a cicada killer wasp is its size. Females are larger than males ...

MISSOURI, USA — Missouri's yearly visitors will soon dig their way out of the ground throughout the state, along with their killer counterparts. Annual cicadas have already begun their reemergence and ...