Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

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 ...

We are starting to see the most impressive wasp found in Ohio. Eastern cicada killers (Specius speciosus) are large, solitary wasps. The cicada killer is one of the largest wasps in North America.

This past summer, Isabel Wherry's daughter, Aspen, noticed a dead cicada in their front yard in Illinois. She named it Cicady, and now, months later, she hasn’t let it leave her sight.

But TAMU experts say they're probably seeing eastern cicada killers, which are common this time of year. Editor's note: The above video originally aired in 2020. The mistaken identity has happened ...

As I looked at the picture I thought, yep, we have a killer in the neighborhood, I better get over there right away. Of course, I’m talking about a cicada killer wasp (Sphecius speciosus).