Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

Experts say Eastern cicada killers are not dangerous to humans. Stings — rare and minor as they are — only come from the females. For the most part, female cicada killers keep their stings for ...

I received a text the other day from my neighbor about a killer in our neighborhood. Immediately I was on alert and wanted to know more. After all, it’s not every day that a killer is ...

Female eggs are provisioned with two or three cicadas while males only get one. As a result, male cicada killers are much smaller than the females. I guess that’s one way to take charge.

Cicada Killer Wasps, also known as Sphecius speciosus ... During the summer, the University of Illinois Extension noted a female wasp was expected to excavate as many as four cicada burrows ...

In my last column I wrote about the cicada killer wasp. An extraordinary large wasp that kills cicadas to feed the wasp’s offspring. I think it sparked some interest in insects in general ...