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A female S. speciosus digging a burrow next to a driveway Eastern cicada-killer wasp holding a paralyzed cicada at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. Solitary wasps like the eastern cicada killer are very different in their behavior from the social wasps such as hornets, yellowjackets, or paper wasps. Cicada killer females use their stings to ...
Cicada killer wasps (genus Sphecius) are large, solitary, ground-dwelling, predatory wasps. They are so named because they hunt cicadas and provision their nests with them, after stinging and paralyzing them. Twenty-one species worldwide are recognized. The highest diversity occurs in the region between North Africa and Central Asia.
Pompilidae, Tachypompilus ignitus, a typical spider-hunting wasp, has paralysed a female Huntsman spider, and is dragging it up a wall to the intended shelter Sphecidae, Ammophilinae, Eremnophila aureonotata transporting a paralysed prominent caterpillar to the nest she has excavated Katydid paralysed by a Sphecid wasp, and left outside the tunnel while the wasp performs a final inspection of ...
It is also the primary insecticide in certain products for killing wasps and hornets, including their nests. It is the main ingredient in the consumer product "Hot Shot Ant & Roach Plus Germ Killer" spray. [1] The vaporizer contains Prallethrin in isoparaffin solvents.
As of 2019 Raid Ant & Roach Killer contains pyrethroids, imiprothrin, and cypermethrin; [3] other products contain tetramethrin and prallethrin as active ingredients. [4] Raid Flying Insect Killer, a spray, uses piperonyl butoxide and D-phenothrin. [5] The brand was sold as Ridsect for Malaysian market.
Sphecius grandis, also called the western cicada killer, is a species of cicada killer wasp (Sphecius). The western species shares the same nesting biology as its fellow species, the eastern cicada killer (S. speciosus). S. grandis, like all other species of the genus Sphecius, mainly provides cicadas for its offspring.
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Mating pair. Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants.Their common name velvet ant refers to their resemblance to an ant, and their dense pile of hair, which most often is bright scarlet or orange, but may also be black, white, silver, or gold.