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 ...

The great golden digger wasp, Sphex icheneumoneus, is a large wasp that sports golden hairs on the head and thorax and has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the season for cicadas again, and this year Oklahoma is going to miss the major brood birth, which will occur around the ...

It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green ...