They’re called cicada-killer wasps. They look like hamster-sized hornets. They kidnap the cicadas, stuff them into holes,lay eggs on them, and bury them alive.
And I’m rooting for the hornets.
The mental images are the stuff of nightmares. Today my deck was covered with the little severed abdomens full of fungus. The heads and thoraxes are still flying around making noise. And some people want to eat these things? They can have mine.
It could be the swarm of dim locusts leaving there now depleted and destroyed fields for new fields in red states.