Large cicada killing wasp that has caught a cicada

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   Jon Henshaw (jon@henshaw.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 11:08:15 JST Jon Henshaw

   If the cicada killing wasps also appear in force during the double brood emergence, it’s gonna be quite an event. Many of them are burrowed around my home, and while harmless to humans, they look menacing when they fly near you.

   Speaking of which, they catch and paralyze cicadas, put them in the ground and inject an egg into them, all while alive. You can figure out the rest. Just another example of how hard core nature can be.

   https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/cicadas-emergence-broods-xix-xiii-scn/index.html