“So if you do have some cicada killers in your yard,” Alcock says, “rejoice rather than run for the wasp spray.” ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: Every July I get cicada killer wasps in my yard ... I stopped using chemicals on my roses a few years ago. I do spray them with Neem once a week. Now I have black spot and rose ...

As their name implies, cicada killers like to take out and feast on cicadas, those really loud, bulbous-eyed bugs that come out from mid-to-late summer. Cicada killers are intimidating because ...

Cicada killer wasps feed exclusively on the annual ... eggs produced by these scale insects will hatch and crawlers will emerge. While a spray application of an insecticide will control these ...

When the trillions of periodical cicadas emerge in multiple Midwestern and Southeastern states next month, they will face a unique predator with murderous intent: cicada killer wasps. Cicada ...

When Brood XIX emerges in Tennessee mid-May, they'll face a unique, venomous predator — killer cicada wasps. The wasps, which can be found in the eastern and western United States, prey on ...

NEW YORK — There is an eerie single-mindedness in the way cicada killers fly. Perhaps it is just insect swagger, or it might be the narrow preoccupation with the task at hand, common to many ...