Great video. Interesting footage and fine comments. I appreciate you emphasizing that these wasps are harmless to humans and I hope that people will stop killing them. On the other hand it must be pretty awful to be a cicada near their burrows.
There quiet harmless actually. They are very well tempered and takes ally of swatting and annoying to have them to sting u. It's feel like a little prick but can leve a hell of a mark
Cool! Had me worried! I have one in the grill of my pickup truck and thought the Killer Bees/Wasps were here and we had to start taking precautions. I Googled it and saw the Japanese Killer Hornet and got scared, till I looked at it again and they look different. So I researched further and found these videos. I was worried but now I am not. Thanks!
Fascinating video; these buggers have destroyed my back yard; no insecticide has been effective so I have turned to kerosene (sprayed in their burrows and then covered) to rid my yard of these destructive creatures, their eggs and larvae so I don't have the same situation next year.
@DGibbs30 they are supposedly not aggressive towards humans. the females are much bigger than males and will only sting if you pick them up...go figure! the males are often seen attacking each other for dominance and will run off other flying insects but they shouldn't bother you on a mower.
@TheConstantYT watch it they will wipe out your butterflies. mine are gone this year after the wasps invasion last year. I am on a mission to eradicte them this year. I literally had hunderds of butterflies at any given time in the summer until the wasps invaded my yard
Right now at my house we had a water main break and the plumbers had to dig up most of the front yard well it brought at least a hundred various wasps and hornets to me they live in the loose dirt it's scary I don't leave the house (they are most active from 8 am to noon and from noon till about sunset there's about 20 flying around)
Loved your video, we have a bunch of these wasps this year, been learning about them. This is the first summer that I haven't heard hardly any cicadas!
I am very proud of you for respecting and filming such interesting beasties. I'm no entomologist, but I do work in pest control and I study insects (and other animals [esp. reptiles]) out of interest and habit. You are a very astute observer and it seems most of your observations (all I believer) are correct. I LOVED the shots of the memorization process when the female wasp was memorizing her hole locality. Anywho, THANK you for such a great vid.!
I just crushed one of those today, when it was trying to burrow and sprayed wasp killer all over it!!! I know wut ur thinking but I had to cuz I have dogs and can't risk them...
I just found a dead Cicada Killer Wasp next to my home in Houston. Your video is very educational an has helped me identify this huge, magnificent creature!
great video! nice camera work. It would great to catch the entire life cycle from birth, to adult, to eating a cicada, to producing more offspring...not sure anyone has ever done that....
im a mailman and im scared to death of them things. one sting from those and you will be paralyze for life lmao well thats what it looks like. i stay far from out they way
really enjoyed your video--I have a couple of these in my backyard--I was worried that they would bother my dogs--so far the wasps seem so passive that they don't even react to the dogs biting at them!!
I have one right now near my front porch, I was going to kill it, but I am glad I looked it up first, I'll let it do it's God intended job, to keep down the cicada population. Thanks for the video.
@rhoadess | I do not know where you live, and I could be wrong, but it seems too early in the season to be a cicada wasp. In Kentucky they appear in august. They come out of the ground to be there when their prey, the cicada, is around. That is late summer. p0hass
@p0hass01 I live in Pensacola Florida, the hole seems to be covered over now, & I haven't see the wasp again. I guess it might be another kind of wasp.
@rhoadess You shouldn't kill them. I killed the one living around my duplex thinking it was some kind of digger wasp or hornet. These are relatively harmless. The females are the only ones that sting, and they only sting humans if you are aggressive towards them and try to swat, and or crush them. The males have no stinger and are harmless to humans. They are a natural form of cicada population control. They kill cicadas and use the husk to lay their eggs in underground.
These wasps are big sons of bitches. Probably one of the biggest you will ever see in North America. Supposedly they're not very aggressive towards humans. But I prefer to keep my distance.
@RegistrationCop I 2nd that, these things are huge.. I used to have them make holes in my yard all the time. Started cutting my grass up higher and watering it. They doin't like that.
They can be quite scary, but they seem to be one of the least aggressive (toward humans) of the various wasps. I speak only from personal experience, they never seemed a threat at all, whereas bald-faced hornets (which are actually a wasp) or yellow jackets (another wasp) were something that are smaller but seem much more willing to use their stings. Bald faced hornets sometimes seem to attack large animals for no apparent reason. My great-grandma told me not to worry about cicada killers.
I was getting my bike out yesterday and saw one of these right by my foot! Doesn't help much that I have a phobia of stinging insects either... O_o T_T
I've had that happen too. Freaked me out cause it was covering nearly half of my foot it seemed, and I wear a size 12. Luckily they're very passive, but they do love to fly close to the ground.
I do lawn care and one of our customers had a bunch of them in there front yard, these wasps are huge, and I saw them carying others into there holes, I would hate to run over these wasps with a lawn mower, ouch! I live in CT and this is the first year I have ever seen these, cool video man
thanks for the info....I see these in NY... had a couple of them dig holes in my yard... unfortunately my dog found out the hard way that they should be avoided. One wasp stung my dog at least 4 times...Dog is fine and (avoids them all the time now)
They are large and very well "armored"... if you get a look at the size of their stinger I am sure anyone would reconsider toying around with them.
This one nearly drowned at the corner of my house due to rain flooding its burrow. I used a stick for it to grab on and had it for about 30 minutes. I'd go and check on it now and then. When it cleaned it's tail, it stung as a reflex. The stinger was about two millimeters and shot poison out two inches behind it. Left a pool about an inch across. I couldn't imagine what that would feel like.
We had one in our front yard. We thought it was a snake hole! We've lived in GA 10 years and only herd of these from a friend in TX who had an infestation in his ront yard. Our Cooks pest control shot some Wasp Freeze down the hole and told me for sure that would get them, and followed it by a white powder. That should take care of it. I could not believe the size of the hole and dirt mound. Amazing a wasp can do this! Thanks for the video.
I saw one of these in Newport News, VA. It was f***ing gigantic... and of course I grabbed the wasp killer. I didn't know until I looked it up that it wasn't as aggressive as other types of wasps.
cicada killer wasp arent aggresive you can get pretty close to one with out worry of being stung in fact you can actually handle one with out being stung how ever not recomended the males how ever cannot sting they are much smaller then the female wasp ive even managed to bat a few cicadas away from these guys the most they do is make a loud buzzing
In South Mississippi, I witnessed a cicada killer chase down and capture a cicada. Through research on the internet, I was able to identify the cicada killer.
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Pontus900 2 months ago
Great video. Interesting footage and fine comments. I appreciate you emphasizing that these wasps are harmless to humans and I hope that people will stop killing them. On the other hand it must be pretty awful to be a cicada near their burrows.
ndirini 4 months ago
There quiet harmless actually. They are very well tempered and takes ally of swatting and annoying to have them to sting u. It's feel like a little prick but can leve a hell of a mark
forgetitman1 5 months ago
they are females the males die shortley after mating and u r really brave cause when they sting they leave a nasty sting
usa4ever2 6 months ago
Cool! Had me worried! I have one in the grill of my pickup truck and thought the Killer Bees/Wasps were here and we had to start taking precautions. I Googled it and saw the Japanese Killer Hornet and got scared, till I looked at it again and they look different. So I researched further and found these videos. I was worried but now I am not. Thanks!
CainOTrump 6 months ago
Fascinating video; these buggers have destroyed my back yard; no insecticide has been effective so I have turned to kerosene (sprayed in their burrows and then covered) to rid my yard of these destructive creatures, their eggs and larvae so I don't have the same situation next year.
robertpaulstone 6 months ago
I have over 30+ kills on these in just about 1 week. Gotta love air soft rifles, blows them to bits. Good hunting.
SirNicholasD 7 months ago
@SirNicholasD lol
DatMafiaKitteh 6 months ago
I have a nest in my front yard, I am from Indiana, These things are just annoying.
MohoFlaggins 7 months ago
will one of these sting me if i run over the nest while i'm cutting grass?
DGibbs30 7 months ago in playlist Science
@DGibbs30 they are supposedly not aggressive towards humans. the females are much bigger than males and will only sting if you pick them up...go figure! the males are often seen attacking each other for dominance and will run off other flying insects but they shouldn't bother you on a mower.
lancelo96 7 months ago
@TheConstantYT watch it they will wipe out your butterflies. mine are gone this year after the wasps invasion last year. I am on a mission to eradicte them this year. I literally had hunderds of butterflies at any given time in the summer until the wasps invaded my yard
hkwelsh1 7 months ago
Sorry not a hundred different species I just meant at the peak time of 8 am to noon you can easily see 100 flying around
starmrc33 7 months ago
Right now at my house we had a water main break and the plumbers had to dig up most of the front yard well it brought at least a hundred various wasps and hornets to me they live in the loose dirt it's scary I don't leave the house (they are most active from 8 am to noon and from noon till about sunset there's about 20 flying around)
starmrc33 7 months ago
when i first saw one eit scared the shit outa me!
xTWSSxkoopakid159 7 months ago
great recording job
TheGuywithecamera 8 months ago
Loved your video, we have a bunch of these wasps this year, been learning about them. This is the first summer that I haven't heard hardly any cicadas!
Princeaboo 8 months ago
DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!!!!
villagepizza2 9 months ago
We're not 5 year olds - you don't have to talk like a robot (we CAN grasp what you're saying). Regardless... it's an interesting subject.
powdersprings30127 9 months ago
@powdersprings30127 Wow, you have to be a dick? He's speaking in a slow, easy-to-understand way that fits all ages. That's what a true educator does.
zatch113 9 months ago
I am very proud of you for respecting and filming such interesting beasties. I'm no entomologist, but I do work in pest control and I study insects (and other animals [esp. reptiles]) out of interest and habit. You are a very astute observer and it seems most of your observations (all I believer) are correct. I LOVED the shots of the memorization process when the female wasp was memorizing her hole locality. Anywho, THANK you for such a great vid.!
Radwoem 10 months ago
This is an excellent video! Great Job.
hitideaquariums 1 year ago
I only have one thing to say.... 7-Dust = Death to all Wasps.... Took me 4 years of trying to kill them with wasp spray. I got them this year :-)
6speedlover 1 year ago
I got one living next to my house in Michigan.
marinesnip 1 year ago
Hey do those things live in Virginia
brazil1kaka 1 year ago
great footage. another clip very helpful..
alwayzeo 1 year ago
I just crushed one of those today, when it was trying to burrow and sprayed wasp killer all over it!!! I know wut ur thinking but I had to cuz I have dogs and can't risk them...
lc1996rox 1 year ago
@lc1996rox carburetor cleaner works better than wasp killer for finishing off these things...
meccaturbo 1 year ago
I just found a dead Cicada Killer Wasp next to my home in Houston. Your video is very educational an has helped me identify this huge, magnificent creature!
clarkhenriksen 1 year ago
great video! nice camera work. It would great to catch the entire life cycle from birth, to adult, to eating a cicada, to producing more offspring...not sure anyone has ever done that....
mike570059 1 year ago
im a mailman and im scared to death of them things. one sting from those and you will be paralyze for life lmao well thats what it looks like. i stay far from out they way
dukesara 1 year ago
really enjoyed your video--I have a couple of these in my backyard--I was worried that they would bother my dogs--so far the wasps seem so passive that they don't even react to the dogs biting at them!!
dhirt26 1 year ago
Just caught and killed one of these in my house last night. FREAKED me out!
luvbnmomee 1 year ago
I have one right now near my front porch, I was going to kill it, but I am glad I looked it up first, I'll let it do it's God intended job, to keep down the cicada population. Thanks for the video.
rhoadess 1 year ago
@rhoadess | I do not know where you live, and I could be wrong, but it seems too early in the season to be a cicada wasp. In Kentucky they appear in august. They come out of the ground to be there when their prey, the cicada, is around. That is late summer. p0hass
p0hass01 1 year ago
@p0hass01 I live in Pensacola Florida, the hole seems to be covered over now, & I haven't see the wasp again. I guess it might be another kind of wasp.
rhoadess 1 year ago
@rhoadess - is a Cicada killer the same as what people call 'ground bees'?
MsJollycholly 10 months ago
@MsJollycholly The best answer I can give you is to look up "cicada killer" on wikipedia, or some other source, or just google it.
rhoadess 10 months ago
@rhoadess You shouldn't kill them. I killed the one living around my duplex thinking it was some kind of digger wasp or hornet. These are relatively harmless. The females are the only ones that sting, and they only sting humans if you are aggressive towards them and try to swat, and or crush them. The males have no stinger and are harmless to humans. They are a natural form of cicada population control. They kill cicadas and use the husk to lay their eggs in underground.
zclary923 6 months ago
wtf huge!!!!
supersticky87 1 year ago
fantastic video,photo's and narration! nice work
the more i learn,the more parasitic wasps+fungi(like cordyceps) etc amaze me.
mrlowdangle 1 year ago
These wasps are big sons of bitches. Probably one of the biggest you will ever see in North America. Supposedly they're not very aggressive towards humans. But I prefer to keep my distance.
RegistrationCop 1 year ago
@RegistrationCop I 2nd that, these things are huge.. I used to have them make holes in my yard all the time. Started cutting my grass up higher and watering it. They doin't like that.
cmartinjr2 1 year ago
i actually saw one of these on a side walk outside my house attacking a cicada.
c0c0asauce 1 year ago
this is why I do all the 2nd story painting on my ladder before spring-if I'm gonna swat I'll be on the ground
4cClubT 2 years ago
There were like 3 of those right at my feet a while ago. I screamed and ran for my life.
ShishioSeta 2 years ago
They can be quite scary, but they seem to be one of the least aggressive (toward humans) of the various wasps. I speak only from personal experience, they never seemed a threat at all, whereas bald-faced hornets (which are actually a wasp) or yellow jackets (another wasp) were something that are smaller but seem much more willing to use their stings. Bald faced hornets sometimes seem to attack large animals for no apparent reason. My great-grandma told me not to worry about cicada killers.
IgnatzKolisch 2 years ago
Well, I had no idea what they were, lol, so yeah, of course I'd run. xD
ShishioSeta 2 years ago
put the golf ball over the wasp's hole! LOL
RCpilotShadow74808 2 years ago
It's amazing and kinda scary how big these guys actually are. Here in Texas they get pretty big and in S.Texas we pronounce cicada "chichada".
deucesolo 2 years ago
I was getting my bike out yesterday and saw one of these right by my foot! Doesn't help much that I have a phobia of stinging insects either... O_o T_T
xXxBlueEyedAngelxXx 2 years ago
I've had that happen too. Freaked me out cause it was covering nearly half of my foot it seemed, and I wear a size 12. Luckily they're very passive, but they do love to fly close to the ground.
jnormanii 2 years ago
Thanks for a great video production!
I felt like I was right there.
I'm looking forward to seeing more and have subscribed.
You mentioned speculating on the orientation of the burrow entrance to the sun but I haven't found that.
Thanks again!
TiqueO6 2 years ago
I do lawn care and one of our customers had a bunch of them in there front yard, these wasps are huge, and I saw them carying others into there holes, I would hate to run over these wasps with a lawn mower, ouch! I live in CT and this is the first year I have ever seen these, cool video man
bigboyfrosty 2 years ago
thanks for the info....I see these in NY... had a couple of them dig holes in my yard... unfortunately my dog found out the hard way that they should be avoided. One wasp stung my dog at least 4 times...Dog is fine and (avoids them all the time now)
They are large and very well "armored"... if you get a look at the size of their stinger I am sure anyone would reconsider toying around with them.
ubpunked2bad 2 years ago
This one nearly drowned at the corner of my house due to rain flooding its burrow. I used a stick for it to grab on and had it for about 30 minutes. I'd go and check on it now and then. When it cleaned it's tail, it stung as a reflex. The stinger was about two millimeters and shot poison out two inches behind it. Left a pool about an inch across. I couldn't imagine what that would feel like.
jnormanii 2 years ago
We had one in our front yard. We thought it was a snake hole! We've lived in GA 10 years and only herd of these from a friend in TX who had an infestation in his ront yard. Our Cooks pest control shot some Wasp Freeze down the hole and told me for sure that would get them, and followed it by a white powder. That should take care of it. I could not believe the size of the hole and dirt mound. Amazing a wasp can do this! Thanks for the video.
phondo2 2 years ago
as soon as the cicadas started buzzing, I noticed one of these near my front door.
today i watched the female drag a cicada into her borrow, it was freaky but pretty cool at the same time.
Feelix111 2 years ago
that is an aaron burns bee
dmoney23045 2 years ago
this is a aaron burns bee!!!!!!!!
emrls 2 years ago
I saw one of these in Newport News, VA. It was f***ing gigantic... and of course I grabbed the wasp killer. I didn't know until I looked it up that it wasn't as aggressive as other types of wasps.
michaelarbec 2 years ago
How do u not get stung?
ashthegreat 2 years ago
if i ever see one of these in real life i'm moving but your video is awesome
devinsiegel7 3 years ago
have fed one to an emperor scorp and one to a scolopendra
millhouse313 3 years ago
I have actually been even to see a wasp take down a cicada in my near by park
reesee65 3 years ago
On my phone I have a video of a spider eating a fly I fed it it was class Never in my 11 years have I seen something like that yes i am 11
NicoleLovesPiplups 3 years ago
Very nice.
Justins1877 3 years ago
Great! What species is this?
r6rome 3 years ago
beautiful!
klavierabend 3 years ago
how the hell did u get that close
matthewcox95 3 years ago
cicada killer wasp arent aggresive you can get pretty close to one with out worry of being stung in fact you can actually handle one with out being stung how ever not recomended the males how ever cannot sting they are much smaller then the female wasp ive even managed to bat a few cicadas away from these guys the most they do is make a loud buzzing
fishman10988 3 years ago
excellent job!!!
ghurdjr4181 4 years ago
In South Mississippi, I witnessed a cicada killer chase down and capture a cicada. Through research on the internet, I was able to identify the cicada killer.
smithbmj 4 years ago
Well Done !!
CarpoMcDivot 4 years ago
wow awesome =D
talking1717 4 years ago
Excellent content.. and in a very nice documentary style. Thanks for Posting these!
Be Well! ~ Zen Archer
ZenArcher 4 years ago
Great stuff again
sparky77275 4 years ago