Cicada Killer - Sphecius speciosus

References


Book/Journal:

Alcock, J. 1998. Taking the sting out of wasps. American Gardner 77: 20-21.

Clark, A.H. 1937. Potent personalities -- wasps and hornets. National Geographic Magazine 72: 47-72.

Coelho, J.R. 1997. Sexual size dimorphism and flight behavior in cicada killers, Sphecius speciosus. Oikos 79: 371-375.

Coelho, J.R. 1998. An acoustical and physiological analysis of buzzing in cicada killer wasps. Journal of Comparative Physiology 183: 745-751.

Coelho, J.R. 2001. Behavioral and physiological thermoregulation in male cicada killers (Sphecius speciosus) during territorial behavior. Journal of Thermal Biology 26(2): 109-116.

Coelho, J.R. and C.W. Holliday. 2008. The effect of hind-tibial spurs on digging rate in female eastern cicada killers. Ecological Entomology 33: 403-407.

Coelho, J.R., C.W. Holliday and J.M. Hastings. 2011. The geographic distributions of cicada killers (Sphecius; Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) in the Americas. The Open Entomology Journal 5: 31-38.

Coelho, J.R., J.M. Hastings, C.W. Holliday, G. Flure and K. Barnes. 2008. Sexual dimorphism of the femora, tibiae, and hind tibial spurs in the eastern cicada killer, Sphecius speciosus Drury (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in the United States. Entomology News 119(1): 17.

Dambach, C.A. and E. Good. 1943. Life history and habits of the cicada killer in Ohio. The Ohio Journal of Science 43: 32-41.

Drees, B. and J. Jackman. 1998. A filed guide to to common Texas insects. Gulf Publishing, Houston, Texas, USA.

Hastings, J.M., J.R. Coelho and C.W. Holliday. 2008. Mating at high population density in a colonial territorial wasp, Sphecius speciosus Drury (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 81(3): 301-308.

Hastings, J.M., C.W. Holliday, A. Long, K. Jones and G. Rodriguez. 2010. Size-specific provisioning by cicada killers, Sphecius speciosus, (Hymenoptera:  Crabronidae) in North Florida. Florida Entomologist 93(3): 412-421.

Holliday, C.W., Hastings, J.M. and Coelho, J.R. 2009. Cicada prey of new world cicada killers, Sphecius spp. (Dahlborn 1843) (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Entomology News 120(1): 1-17.

Holliday, C.W. and J.R. Coelho. 2006. Improved key to new world species of Sphecius (Hymenoptera: Carbronidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99(5): 793-798.

Lin, N. 1979. Differential prey selection for the sex of offspring in the cicada killer Sphecius speciosus (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 81(2): 269-275.

Marlos, D. 2010. The curious world of bugs the bugman's guide to the mysterious and remarkable lives of things that crawl. Penguin Group, New York, New York, USA.

Online:

Animal Diversity Web 2012. <URL:http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Sphecius_speciosus/>. Accessed 10 March 2013.

Australian Museum 2009. <URL:http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/Cicada-killer-wasps>. Accessed 09 April 2013.

Biokids 2013. <URL:http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Hymenoptera/>. Accessed 04 April 2013.

BugGuide 2013. <URL:http://bugguide.net/node/view/514>. Accessed 12 March 2013.

Cornell University - Master Beekeeper Program 2004. <URL:http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/stinging/cicadakiller.htm>. Accessed 13 March 2013.
 
Encyclopedia of Life 2012. <URL:http://eol.org/pages/1045615/details/>. Accessed 13 March 2013.

Lafayette College 2012. <URL:http://sites.lafayette.edu/hollidac/research/biology-of-cicada-killer-wasps/>. Accessed 07 April 2013.

National Geographic 2013. <URLhttp://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/wasp/>. Accessed 04 April 2013.

Oklahoma State University - Entomology & Plant Pathology 2012. <URL:http://entoplp.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/cicadakiller.htm>. Accessed 13 March 2013.

RedOrbit 2013. <URL:http://www.redorbit.com/education/reference_library/science_1/insecta/2576066/cicada_killer_wasp/>. Accessed 10 April 2013.

Smithsonian Institution 1999. <URL:http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/buginfo/cickillr wasp.htm>. Accessed 13 March 2013.

ZipcodeZoo 2012. <URL:http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/S/Sphecius_speciosus/>. Accessed 10 March 2013.

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