While cicada killers are large and rather fierce in appearance, they are considered beneficial, and control is rarely needed. To learn more about their prey and lots of pictures of them ...

As I looked at the picture I thought, yep, we have a killer in the neighborhood, I better get over there right away. Of course, I’m talking about a cicada killer wasp (Sphecius speciosus).

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 ...

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 ...