For the most part, female cicada killers keep their stings for cicadas. Females can sting humans if they are provoked, which they normally don’t become. As a nonaggressive insect, the only time ...
But there's one part of the insect's arrival that you may have not considered: the surfacing of the Cicada Killer Wasp. Cicada Killer Wasps, also known as Sphecius speciosus, are "solitary wasps ...
Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surface in droves.
Some say that it looks similar to a yellow-jacket or hornet, but those are a very different kinds of insect. The cicada killer is a ground-dwelling wasp. Females are larger than the males.
We are starting to see the most impressive wasp found in Ohio. Eastern cicada killers (Specius speciosus) are large, solitary wasps. The cicada killer is one of the largest wasps in North America.
Screaming “boy bands” will swarm across Kentucky starting in late spring into the summer this year, though their songs are ...
While the great cicada emergence of 2024 brought a historic convergence of cicada broods, what will happen in 2025?
Cicadas will likely first emerge in Pennsylvania later this spring. Here's where and how long they'll buzz around.
What's the buzz? Here's what we know about where, when you will see and hear cicadas in Mississippi this summer.
Copperheads are masters of camouflage, blending in with leaves, tree bark and forest debris. This makes them nearly invisible ...