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 ...

Murder hornets are native to Japan and South Korea ... the cicadas, emerges. Male cicada killers are territorial and may try to chase off people or animals by dive-bombing or buzzing them.

Some say that it looks similar to a yellow-jacket or hornet, but those are a very different kinds of insect. The cicada killer is a ground-dwelling wasp. Females are larger than the males.

I received a text the other day from my neighbor about a killer in our neighborhood. Immediately I was on alert and wanted to know more. After all, it’s not every day that a killer is ...