Eastern cicada killers, also known as giant cicada killers, are a family of large wasps roughly 1-1.5 inches long with clear, brownish-wings and black-and-yellow patterns similar to most wasps.

The study analyzed changes in giant cicadas in the Dunstaniidae and Palaeontinidae families during the Mesozoic era (252 ...

(NEXSTAR) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening of two broods of periodical cicadas that swarmed much of the eastern United States over the spring and summer. The noisy ...

has just caught a giant cicada (Palaeontinodes reshuitangensis). Resting the underside of a fern leaf, is a large butterfly-like lacewing (Limnogramma hani) of the extinct family Kalligrammatidae.