Cicada Killer Wasp

Here are fun facts about Cicada Killer Wasps for you to enjoy:
1.    Yes, these wasps kill cicadas1. it works like this:
1.    The adult female wasp will paralyze the cicada with her venomous sting.
2.    The wasp will carry the cicada to a burrow, where it will place the cicada.
3.    The wasp will lay an egg under the left or right second leg of the cicada.
4.    The egg hatches, and the larvae begins to eat the cicada, while taking care to keep it alive.
5.    Once the larvae has had its fill, it spins a cocoon, in which it will change into an adult wasp.
2.    Female wasps are able to predetermine the sex of their larvae.1 They must do this because it takes more females to create new generations of wasps than it does males.
3.    Cicada Killer Wasps belong to the family Crabronidae Latreille, 1802; the tribe Bembicini Latreille, 1802 and the genus Sphecius Dahlbom, 1843 2. Crabronidae comes from the Latin word for hornet, Bembicini comes from the Greek word for buzzing insect, and Sphecius is from the Greek word for wasp.
4.    Not all Sphecius wasps in the world kill cicadas, but all Sphecius in the New World (the Americas) do 3.
5.    If you haven’t seen a Cicada Killer Wasp, they are largely black and pale yellow wasps, and are often found carrying a cicada (see image on this page).
Source: Cicada Mania