http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_killer_wasp
I've never seen these before! It says they're not really a stinging problem unless molested so I am not really worried that we have a couple in the yard. I sprayed one the other day in the grass because...well, holy shit it was HUGE. I like bugs though, so I have been sitting on the porch and watching a couple of them fly around. I identified them online a day or two ago, but just now I was having a smoke out front and there was a really loud buzzing coming from the hedges. Out comes one, carrying a cicada. It then half flew, half-fell across the walkway into a little flower garden we have . I moved apart some of the stems and sure enough, there was the burrow. Anyway, I just thought it was cool. It says they're common in Texas, any of you Texans seen them?




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