Specifically this is a Cicada Killer Wasp. Down south we get alot of nasty little bugs, reptiles and what not. This lovely fellow decided to camp out on my back porch the other day. These suckers can grow up to an inch and a half although these seem bigger to me. Now mind you I have no flowers around my back porch, just a few plants that do not give off nectar so I think it might have been lost. Either way my puppy seemed interested in it as she is with all the freaking bugs back there and wants to try to eat it, so I had to grab her really quick so she would not get stung or me for that matter and bring her in the house. While closing the screen door, the poor fellow got caught in between. Unlucky for him, lucky for me it did not make it in the house. Grabbed my handy dandy broom and opened it back up and swatted it away. It fell dead on the cement. Rest in peace Mr. Wasp and let that be a lesson to all your cousins not to come round my back porch again.

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1. We have these cicada killers also. My son has named one of them that’s in the backyard “Beezy.” Despite their size, these guys are fairless harmless (unless you’re a cicada). They fly close to you to ward you off from their nests, burrowed in loose soil on the ground. They capture and paralyze the cicadas for their larval babies in the nest. I’ve gotten within inches on several occassions and never been stung. Usually by mid-August, they will be gone.

   Comment by steve — 7/18/2005 @ 7:19 pm

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