{"id":9336,"date":"2019-02-04T04:57:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2019-02-04T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:07:17","slug":"exeirus-lateritius-australian-cicada-killer-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/exeirus-lateritius-australian-cicada-killer-wasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeirus lateritius: Australian Cicada Killer Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has a Cicada Killer Wasp: <strong>Exeirus lateritius<\/strong>. It belongs to the same family, Crabronidae, as <a href=\"\/cicadas\/10-facts-about-cicada-killer-wasps\/\">American Cicada Killer Wasps<\/a>. Dr. Lindsay Popple says &#8220;They go for the big ones like Thopha [Drummer cicadas], Cyclochila [Green Grocers, Yellow Mondays]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This was provided by Gary Warner, and was taken by Jeff Doring.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"Exeirus lateritius\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo of an empty-handed Cicada Killer heading back to its burrow is by Gary Warner.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/empty-handed-wasp-returns-to-burrow.jpg\" alt=\"empty handed wasp returns to burrow\" width=\"520\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/empty-handed-wasp-returns-to-burrow.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/empty-handed-wasp-returns-to-burrow-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a video from YouTube. According to the video description, they are also known as Ground Digger Wasps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2xY4vDk6lsE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has a Cicada Killer Wasp: Exeirus lateritius. It belongs to the same family, Crabronidae, as American Cicada Killer Wasps. Dr. Lindsay Popple says &#8220;They go for the big ones like Thopha [Drummer cicadas], Cyclochila [Green Grocers, Yellow Mondays]&#8221;. This was provided by Gary Warner, and was taken by Jeff Doring. This photo of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cicada-killer-wasps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}