Eastern cicada killer
The eastern cicada killer is a large wasp that hunts cicadas, the loud insects that buzz in summer trees. It lives in the Eastern and Midwest United States and further south into Mexico and Central America. Females are not aggressive and rarely sting, so the sight of them flying over lawns is usually harmless.1

Engeri y'okukitegeera
- Large, at 1.5 to 5.0 cm long1
- Hairy thorax with reddish and black areas1
- Black to reddish brown abdomen marked with light yellow stripes1
- Brownish wings1
- Females are somewhat larger than males1
Kitera okutabulwa ne: Its colours resemble some yellowjacket and hornet species, and European hornets are often mistaken for it. European hornets are about 3.5 cm long, so they are smaller than the largest cicada killers.1
Amaanyi g'obusagwa
Obusagwa buyita mu ggwa lyakyo eribojja.
Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?
The female's sting paralyses cicadas so that they can be stored as food for the young.1
Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?
Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.Females are not aggressive and rarely sting unless they are grasped roughly, stepped on with bare feet, or caught in clothing. One author who was stung said the sting felt like not much more than a pinprick. Males cannot sting.1
Kikola ki nga kitidde?
Females sting only if handled roughly. Males may jab with a sharp spine on the tip of the abdomen if handled roughly, but they usually fly away when swatted at.1
Bwe kibojja
- Kalakata oggyemu eriggwa ly'enjuki era onyogoze ekifo.
- Omuntu bw'aba nga tassa bulungi, ng'azimbye mu maaso oba mu mumiro, oba ng'awulira ng'agenda kuzirika, buno bubenje bwa alergy obw'amangu: kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze era kozesa empiso ye eya adrenaline (adrenaline pen) bw'aba nga agirina.
Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi
Weekuume
- Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
- Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
- Bw'emu ekubojja: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.
Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma
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Ebituufu
A female often carries a cicada up into a tree before flying to her burrow, because the cicada can weigh more than twice as much as she does.1
Males are seen in groups and may lock together in midair combat until one breaks away.1
Cicada killers may help trees by reducing the number of cicadas that feed on them.1
The parasitic velvet ant wasp, also called the cow-killer wasp, often lays its egg in cicada killer nest cells.1
A single burrow may eventually have 10 or more nest cells.1
Omumenyi w'enfumo
Enfumo: Male cicada killers are dangerous and will sting people.
Amazima: Males only grapple with other insects and cannot sting. They investigate things that move near them because they are looking for females.1
Ku bakugu mu busagwa
- Erinnya erya ssaayansi
- Sphecius speciosus
- Ekibinja
- Enjuki, ennumba n'ennumba ennene
- Amaka
- Crabronidae2
- Ensengeka
- Hymenoptera
- Ssemazinga
- Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono
- Abaana abawere
- Each female lays one egg on a cicada inside a nest cell, and the egg hatches in one or two days. Males receive one cicada per egg and females receive two or sometimes three.1
- Akabi eri abantu
- 1 / 5: Kitono3
Ebituufu we biva
- Sphecius speciosus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Sphecius speciosus (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
- Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.
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