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Cicada Killer Wasp
Posted on 8/18/18 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 8/18/18 at 6:53 pm
I'd always seen these flying/hovering around my yard and finally got to see one in action today. It caught & dragged a cicada about 5' across the ground towards my Red Bud tree and started climbing the tree with the cicada. I ran back inside to get my phone and by the time I got back in less than a half a minute, it was 8' feet off the ground and I wasn't able to record it and share with you guys.
I guess it needed the elevation of tree to fly off with it's prey. Dang thing looked like the size of a hummingbird between the size of the wasp & the cicada when it flew away.
Have any of you guys seen these in action with prey before?
I guess it needed the elevation of tree to fly off with it's prey. Dang thing looked like the size of a hummingbird between the size of the wasp & the cicada when it flew away.
Have any of you guys seen these in action with prey before?
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Posted on 8/18/18 at 7:21 pm to mingoswamp
Made me think of this guy, Coyote Peterson, who lets all kinda shite sting and bite him.
This guys is nuts
This guys is nuts
Posted on 8/18/18 at 8:10 pm to Who Me
I found a dead tarantula hawk in the desert. I thought it wasn't real at first it was so big.
Posted on 8/18/18 at 8:54 pm to Who Me
I feel like the world could see a pandemic viral apocolypse and this guy's blood might be able to save the human race.
Posted on 8/18/18 at 10:23 pm to WAR TIGER
I got these things all in my front yard
Posted on 8/18/18 at 10:37 pm to mingoswamp
We are very lucky insects can’t get bigger.
Posted on 8/18/18 at 10:43 pm to mingoswamp
As a youngster waaaaay back in the day I’d see the huge wasps hovering and hunting. Then I would hear the shriek of its prey. Yes they did have to elevate themselves to fly off with their booty.
Posted on 8/19/18 at 2:45 pm to Yewkindewit
I used to have these back when I had big oaks in the yard. Intimidating as hell but pretty docile unless you really try to piss them off. They used to attack my RC heli when I'd be hovering around the yard. You'd see this huge yellowish wasp diving full speed into the rotor blades then "smack". I'd have to clean the guts off the blades pretty often.
Posted on 8/20/18 at 9:36 am to mingoswamp
I have a few in my yard. I saw one fly across my porch with a cicada in its grip. Crazy it can still fly towing something its size or bigger.
Posted on 8/20/18 at 10:12 am to slacker130
It had a hard time dragging the cicada to the tree, but when it got on the bark, it climbed with a quickness.
Posted on 8/20/18 at 10:13 am to Bronsonburner
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They used to attack my RC heli when I'd be hovering around the yard. You'd see this huge yellowish wasp diving full speed into the rotor blades then "smack". I'd have to clean the guts off the blades pretty often.
Thanks. Finally found what I need to combat these heathens.
Posted on 8/20/18 at 11:54 am to mingoswamp
Years ago, when on LSU's campus, I heard a cicada calling in one of the oaks in the quad. After a bit, it started making a higher pitched sound than normal while moving. The movement was the cicada falling from one of the branches to the ground with one of the wasps grasping on it. Both hit the ground. I don't recall what happened after that. It was in the middle of an intersection of multiple sidewalks, perhaps they got trampled.
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