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A female S. speciosus digging a burrow next to a driveway Eastern cicada-killer wasp holding a paralyzed cicada at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. Solitary wasps like the eastern cicada killer are very different in their behavior from the social wasps such as hornets, yellowjackets, or paper wasps. Cicada killer females use their stings to ...
Sphecius grandis, also called the western cicada killer, is a species of cicada killer wasp (Sphecius). The western species shares the same nesting biology as its fellow species, the eastern cicada killer (S. speciosus). S. grandis, like all other species of the genus Sphecius, mainly provides cicadas for its offspring.
Cicada killer wasps (genus Sphecius) are large, solitary, ground-dwelling, predatory wasps. They are so named because they hunt cicadas and provision their nests with them, after stinging and paralyzing them.
Cicadas are paralyzed by the wasp's sting and will be carried back to the burrow, said the Smithsonian. ... it can result in damage to lawns. Killer cicada wasps may dig in the loose soil in ...
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After locating a cicada, the wasp stings it, injecting paralyzing venom. The wasp then drags the paralyzed victim up a tree or post and flies away with it back to her nest. The cicada is buried in a burrow along with the wasp's eggs. The wasp's larvae emerge and feed on the living but paralyzed prey, pupate, and emerge the following spring.
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