In June, I showed Kevin the giant wasps that were flying around outside. They are called Cicada Killers. The males don’t sting, but the females do and we don’t want to try to figure out which is which. They are about 1.5 inches long (sometimes bigger - the size of a man's thumb - a large thumb) and they eat Cicada bugs which are tree bugs that come out every 13 or 17 years. Cicada bugs make a really loud sound and only hang out on trees until they finish mating and return to the ground where they stay for 13 or 17 years. In some areas, the Cicada Killers and bugs come out every year.
The Cicada Killers catch the Cicada bug, inject their venom into the bug to paralyze them and then the Cicada Killers take the Cicada bug back to their own nest in the ground (nest is a hole 12-24 inches deep in the ground). The Cicada Killers need 10-20 bugs in their nest to feed the newborn Cicada Killers. GROSS!!! Both Kevin and I had the heebie geebies all day.
Also, a red wasp got in the house and was sitting on the printer paper in the printer. Kevin was at his desk and tried to print something. Wondering why the printer was not printing, he looked up to see the red wasp about a foot away from him. Thank goodness I have three heavy duty fly swatters which saved the day for Kevin!!!
So, the pest control company showed up to treat all 9 Cicada Killer nests and red ant hills in the back yard, plus two paper wasp nests in the front of the house.
Check out the links below:
Cicada Bug ===> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada
Cicada Bug Video ===> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mah26og11ms
Cicada Killer Wasp ===> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_cicada_killer
Cicada Killer Video ===> http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15581392eErZSAbw
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Bugged Out !!!
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