The Cicada Killer Wasps (Sphecius speciosus) are out and about now, collecting pollen at flowers to eat, stabbing cicadas for their young…
I’m not telling, but here’s a Dog Day cicada (genus Tibicen), more heard than seen by we ground-huggers.
The two wasps pictured above are males. They’re smaller than the females.
Here’s a female, scare-the-horses-ginormous, patrolling her tunnel of a nest under some Bearberry (Arctostaphylos ova-ursi) in the Pine Barrens section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
C/CKW
Published August 8, 2013 Fieldnotes Leave a CommentTags: Brooklyn, cicadas, insects, invertebrates, Prospect Park, wasps
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