The collective panic led AgriLife to make a Facebook post assuring residents the suspects were not murder hornets, but rather, a common large wasp— the Eastern cicada killer. Despite the false ...

Female eggs are provisioned with two or three cicadas while males only get one. As a result, male cicada killers are much smaller than the females. I guess that’s one way to take charge.

If another male cicada killer approaches, they often fight, grabbing each other in mid-air, trying to drive the other off. When this happens, their flight pattern is erratic and they often bump ...

Cicada killers — also known as ground diggers — are large wasps that live in burrows underground. Despite their incredible ...