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Females will fly up into tree canopies to capture and paralyze cicadas. Cicada killers are a native wasp species, and as their name implies, they hunt cicadas. They have large, rust-colored eyes as well as orangish-red wings and legs. Six legs are utilized for grabbing pray or clasping onto reeds and plants. Cicada killers can be up to 1.5 inches long and are black with yellow markings on the thorax and abdomen. Bulging eyes are set to the sides of the head and each contains thousands of honeycomb-shaped lenses providing excellent vision with moving targets. Color patterns vary as do wing designs and lengths can run as long as 5 inches (as with the "Giant Darner"). Odonates are found near fresh water sources and are active on pleasant sunny days. Dragonflies are the more common of the two and both share many of the same physical characteristics and behaviors.
There are some 5,500 identified North American species in the order and over 450 of these are found throughout the United States and Canada alone. One of the most recognizable orders of insect is the Odonata which encompasses both Dragonflies and Damselflies.
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