This is the annual cicada that we hear "singing" during these late hot summer days. We are more likely to hear rather than see them.
The cicada nymphs live underground and feed on roots. Then they climb up on trees (or on the outside wall of my apartment), molt and emerge as adults. This is the discarded skin.
This huge wasp is a cicada killer.
The cicada killer wasp takes the cicada to her underground burrow, where she will lay an egg on it and her babies will eat the still alive cicada. In fact it may take two or three cicadas to raise a female wasp, becuase they are so big.
This is the annual cicada that we hear "singing" during these late hot summer days. We are more likely to hear rather than see them.
The cicada nymphs live underground and feed on roots. Then they climb up on trees (or on the outside wall of my apartment), molt and emerge as adults. This is the discarded skin.
This huge wasp is a cicada killer.
The cicada killer wasp takes the cicada to her underground burrow, where she will lay an egg on it and her babies will eat the still alive cicada. In fact it may take two or three cicadas to raise a female wasp, becuase they are so big.
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