The collective panic led AgriLife to make a Facebook post assuring residents the suspects were not murder hornets, but rather, a common large wasp— the Eastern cicada killer. Despite the false ...

Some say that it looks similar to a yellow-jacket or hornet, but those are a very different kinds of insect. The cicada killer is a ground-dwelling wasp. Females are larger than the males.

The yellow-legged hornet should not be confused with the cicada killer wasp, the bald-faced hornet, paper wasps, queen yellowjackets, wood wasps and robber flies. The yellow-legged hornet is ...