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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini) » Spheciina

Subtribe Spheciina

Spheciina » Cicada-killer Wasps (Sphecius) » Eastern Cicada-killer Wasp (Sphecius speciosus)

Unknown Flying Insect carrying lotus - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada's worst nightmare - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada's worst nightmare - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada's worst nightmare - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada Killer with cicada - Sphecius speciosus

wasp carrying cicada - Sphecius speciosus

wasp carrying cicada - Sphecius speciosus

wasp carrying cicada - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada Killer Wasp - Sphecius speciosus - male - female

Cicada Killer Wasp - Sphecius speciosus - female

Cicada Killer Wasp - Sphecius speciosus - female

Big Wasp (Cicada Killer?) ID Request - Sphecius speciosus

Big Wasp (Cicada Killer?) ID Request - Sphecius speciosus

Anyone know? - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada Killer - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada Killer attempting to drag its prey into its burrow under my flagstone patio. - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada Killer side view - Sphecius speciosus - female

Cicada Killer hard at it - Sphecius speciosus - female

Cicada Killer down in - Sphecius speciosus - female

Cicada Killer coming up - Sphecius speciosus - female

Cicada Killer In Flight - Sphecius speciosus - female

Don't know....but loves the sand - Sphecius speciosus

scary - Sphecius speciosus

Cicada Killer - Sphecius speciosus

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