Female eggs are provisioned with two or three cicadas while males only get one. As a result, male cicada killers are much smaller than the females. I guess that’s one way to take charge.

The cicada killer is one of the largest wasps in the ... Then, they carry the helpless insects back to their burrow and lay their eggs among their bodies, according to The Smithsonian.

The nymphs will hatch from these eggs after 6 weeks and fall to the ground. They will then burrow into the soil and begin feeding on roots of trees and shrubs to restart the cicada lifecycle." ...

Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years ... Why you shouldn't fear (or kill) cicadas The emergence of cicadas is "just like out of a sci-fi movie," Reall said.