Mystery Solved!

Here's where at least one cicada
killer wasp made its burrow

Ethan found the burrow on his way home
from Kindergarten. The wasp had excavated
in recently dug-up soil next to our new curb.
Ethan even got to see the wasp drag a cicada
down into the burrow! (Too bad we didn't have
a camera with us that morning.)

Daddy came back later and waited by the
entrance until the female wasp came out.
Here's what he saw:

Good hunting, Mommy Wasp!

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Here are some Web sites that we used to research this question:

   Prof. Chuck Holliday's Cicada-Killer Page
   < http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/cicadakillerhome.html >

Life Cycle of the Cicada Killer
< http://homepages.culver.edu/faculty/jcoelho/sphecius.htm >

Cicada Killer Wasp (Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet)
< http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/2078A.html >

If you need advice on how to control cicada killers in your yard,
follow this link.

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This page was created on August 26, 2000, and it was last updated on July 29, 2002.