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Cicada Killers in Stoughton, MA

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Cicada Killers in Stoughton, MA

I have attached 2 photos. It is black and yellow and I beloved it may be a female. I have never seen One before today. There were two holes in my lawn next to the driveway. I then noticed a third hole in a crack in the driveway. My kids were playing with the piles of dirt made by the Wasp. I thought they were mad by a mole until I saw the Wasp land. I did not see of it had anything with it.

Date Posted: 2012-08-18 Comments: (1) Show Comments Hide Comments

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Posted By: Massachusetts Cicadas | On: 2013-04-09 | Website:

Hello and thanks for the photos. Yes, the images are that of a female cicada killer wasp. Several ways to distinguish males from females are females are larger than males and see those two spurs on the hind legs? Males do not have them but females do.

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