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Eastern cicada killer

Sphecius speciosus

Davart il num: It is named for its habit of hunting cicadas, which it uses to feed its young.1

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Avieuls, vespras e calabruns

PiztgadasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

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

Viva en

Eastern and Midwest United States, south into Mexico and Central America1

America dal Nord

Pagina iniziala

It digs nests in well-drained, sandy to loose clay soil, such as bare or grassy banks, berms and hills. People often meet it next to raised sidewalks, driveways and patio slabs, and in planters, window boxes, flower beds or under shrubs in full sun.1

Lunghezza

1,5 cm fin 5 cm (0,6 in fin 2 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 39 km/h (24 mph)

Sgular, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

Females catch cicadas and paralyse them with a sting, then carry them to their burrows as food for their young. Adults also feed on flower nectar and plant sap.1

Foto da Eastern cicada killer — Eastern cicada killer. Foto: Judy Gallagher. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

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

Savens confundì cun: 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

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

The female's sting paralyses cicadas so that they can be stored as food for the young.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: LevSco ina piztgada d'avieul u main. Practicamain nunprivlus per umans.

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

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

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

Sch'el piztga

Sgratta ora l'aguigl d'avieul e sfradenta il lieu.
Sche la persuna ha difficultads da respirar, unfladiras da la fatscha u da la gula, u sch'ella sa senta sco da svanir, è quai ina urgenza allergica: clama tes numer d'urgenza e duvra sia penna d'adrenalina, sch'ella ha ina.

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Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

pli curt che tes det pitschenpudess sgular sur in entir plaz da ballape en 9,7 secundas

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Quant svelt è el?

Ina persuna che curra a tutta forza circa 37 km/h (23 mph)

Eastern cicada killer circa 39 km/h (24 mph)

In auto en la citad circa 50 km/h (31 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

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

Destructur da mits

Mit: Male cicada killers are dangerous and will sting people.

Vardad: Males only grapple with other insects and cannot sting. They investigate things that move near them because they are looking for females.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Sphecius speciosus
Gruppa: Avieuls, vespras e calabruns
Famiglia: Crabronidae2
Urden: Hymenoptera
Continents: America dal Nord
Poppins: 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
Privel per umans: 1 / 5: Lev3

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