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 ...

However, their painful stings ... The large wasps are native to Texas and they usually start showing up in June when their favorite meal, the cicadas, emerges. Male cicada killers are territorial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...