Cicada Killers:
These solitary wasp are noticed by them
flying around your garden area and the burrowing of holes they construct in order to
raise their young. What they do is first mate with a drone (male) and then after that event has taken place they kill the male, they burrow a hole in the earth and lay a single egg in a recently captured and stung cicada and the young goes through their four stage metamorphosis
At the
second or larval stage, the critter starts eating it’s breakfast (the
cicada) and then quickly pupates or cocoons. A week or two later, out comes a new one. In addition, guess what? You will have the generational offspring of that one in your garden next year!
If you have us do a treatment that will greatly reduce the possibility
of future problems.
Our service treatment for this pest is warranted for a full year.
(Below) A male Cicada Killer Wasp. The females will be active
until around the end of August. |
Above: Common nest dwelling of a Cicada Killer Wasp
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