Large yellow and black wasps almost the size of a human thumb will soon be flying around the late Kentucky summer, hunting for cicadas. The cicada killer wasp is often mistaken for the so-called ...

In this YouTube video, a cicada sits on a leaf and, over the course of two hours, sheds its old self via molting. Molting is a biological process of transformation undergone by many creatures in the ...

The name sounds scary, but these wasps don’t want to hurt you — well, unless you’re a cicada. The first thing you’ll likely notice about a cicada killer wasp is its size. Females are larger than males ...