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 ...

Cicada killers (Sphecius speciosus) are on the prowl, and there have been many inquiries about them at the Master Gardener plant clinics. Cicada killers are solitary wasps with yellow banding on their ...

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 ...

After 17 years underground, billions of periodical cicadas are about to emerge. The emergence of two broods across Illinois is an event that has not occurred in over 200 years and will not happen ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Eastern Cicada Killer Wasps have been spotted in Albuquerque, according to the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department. The cicada killers are commonly seen ...