This is an Asian giant hornet, a.ka. the murder hornet. Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images. Another good way to separate the Asian giant hornet from the cicada killer is by looking at the insect's ...

The western cicada killer is closer in color to the Asian giant hornet, being reddish brown and yellow. But there is no contrasting color between the head and thorax and the stripes are jagged on ...

Since the release of information about Asian giant hornets, Texas A&M AgriLife entomologists are being inundated with cicada killers and other lookalike insects submitted for identification as a ...

While the Asian giant hornet has a wide, orange head that stands out from its dark thorax, as opposed to the cicada killer's narrow, color-matching head, it's the difference in stripes that make ...

Cicada killers go after the more dependable seasonal cicadas, not the periodical species, such as Brood X, which descended upon the eastern U.S. in May.Though there are four species of cicada ...

Murder hornets prey on honeybee populations, which are essential for crop production. When the killer bug attacks hives, they kill the adult worker bees, and then wipe out the next generation by ...

The cicada killer looks like a hornet, but won't sting like one. Here's how to differentiate between these harmless-to-humans insects and their more dangerous cousins.

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 ...

Sep. 30—State officials have been bugged lately by people who have mistaken a large, orange insect they have encountered for another creature with a nefarious reputation. Danielle Evans ...

Cicada killers are typically 1 to 1.5 inches in length; ... The easiest way to tell cicada killers apart from the murder hornets is the stripes on their abdomen. They are irregular, ...

MOSCOW, Idaho (KIFI) — A harmless, native insect known as the cicada killer wasp is being mistaken throughout Idaho as an international invader with a menacing reputation. University of Idaho ...