Hocus Pocus fun facts

Meet the cicada killer wasp! These large wasps can be intimidating, but as long as you're not a cicada, there's no need to worry! Female cicada killers use their stinger to paralyze cicadas, which they bring back to their nest (a hole in the ground) to be food for the wasp's young. Cicadas (the insects that scream from the tree tops each summer) can be nearly twice the size of the wasp so to help her get back to her nest with such large cargo, the wasp climbs a vertical surface (in this case, th