Then, she'll go and catch a cicada. She'll sting it, but that doesn't kill the cicada. It immobilizes it. If necessary, she'll climb higher in the tree holding the cicada, which can be twice her weight! She'll climb with her legs, but also use her wings to help with the climb. Once she is at a sufficient height, she'll make a "controlled landing" to her borrow. She can't fly very far at all carrying all that weight! She'll take the cicada down the burrow, and place it in the nest chamber. Then, she'll lay an egg on it and cover it up with dirt. If it's a male, then he gets only one cicada. If it's a female egg she's laying, the mother will bury up to three cicadas for her! Again, this is because the female wasp is larger than the males, so she'll need more food. The cicada killer will then dig another nest chamber, and start the process over. She will dig up to 10 nest chambers in her burrow. Once the eggs hatch, the cicada is food for the baby wasps!

The eggs hatch in several days, and the larvae begin to eat the cicada. The baby lives underground during the winter, and emerges in June or July as a full adult wasp.

I'm astounded at the instincts of this creature! It lives only one season, which for them is just several months, yet it knows so much! They know automatically how to dig a hole, and where. They know to make nest chambers. They know exactly what kind of creature to hunt for. They know that the cicada has to go into the hole and into the nest chamber. She even knows if her egg is male or female, and she knows that the female has to get more food than the male! 

Again, astounding design by an astounding Designer!  

In Christ,