It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green pattern on the back of the thorax) are making themselves known. The males, ...

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 ...

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 ...

But not all opinions are quite so negative. Take the giant cicada killer wasp, for example. As far as this six-legged predator is concerned, the cicada’s noisy rattling is the sweetest sound on earth.

Periodical cicadas are expected to emerge in New Jersey this May. Here is everything you need to know about Brood XIV and ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — If you’re going to be outside this weekend, keep an eye out for stingers in the sky. Parts of KELOLAND have seen an increase in wasp activity. But not all wasps are built ...