Asian giant hornets' stings are especially dangerous ... albeit sometimes unwelcome — pest controllers. Cicada killers are large, solitary wasps with black bodies, yellow markings and reddish ...

Eastern cicada killers (Specius speciosus ... before hunting for cicadas on nearby tree trunks and lower limbs. The wasp stings its prey, turns the victim on its back, straddles it, and drags ...

These wasps are no doubt frightful in appearance ... For the most part, female cicada killers keep their stings for cicadas. Females can sting humans if they are provoked, which they normally ...

I received a text the other day from my neighbor about a killer in our neighborhood. Immediately I was on alert and wanted to know more. After all, it’s not every day that a killer is ...

The cicada killer is a ground-dwelling wasp. Females are larger than the males ... but she doesn’t eat them. She stings them with a paralyzing toxin. After paralyzed and helpless, she flips ...