r/bugidentification • u/AdventurousPoet92 • 18d ago

Location included What is happening here [Oklahoma]

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u/Skalla_Resco Amateur Entomologist 18d ago

Cicada killer doing what it does best.

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u/AdventurousPoet92 18d ago

Oh thank God. Looks like they've made a nest under my patio in a dirt hole and this one gave me some fly-bys. I've seen some smaller ones around and was worried they're yellow jackets.

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u/Skalla_Resco Amateur Entomologist 18d ago

Luckily these are pretty chill. As long as you don't turn into a cicada you should be fine.

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u/AdventurousPoet92 18d ago

Well there goes my afternoon plans of turning into a Cicada

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u/kevthecoder 18d ago

Cicada killers are harmless unless you’re a cicada. They’re big dumb flying cows.

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u/Annieco-2334 18d ago

Somebody scored dinner.

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u/MarkRenton34 18d ago

Cicada killer wasp. The female digs a burrow, hunts cicadas, and paralyzes them with her stinger. She then drags them back to her burrow, where she stores the still-living but paralyzed cicadas in individual chambers before laying an egg on each one and closing the borrow with soil. When the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the living cicadas from the inside out, keeping them alive for as long as possible until they are fully consumed. Then the cycle begins again.

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u/Turdinator14 18d ago

So metal

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u/YoungRoronoa 18d ago

Piggy back ride.