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References

• Bringer, S.L. 1996. Effects of envenomation by cicada killers (Sphecius speciosus) on longevity and physiology of annual cicadas (Tibicen spp.). M.S. Thesis, Western Illinois University.
• Clark, A.H. 1937. Potent personalities--wasps and hornets. National Geographic Magazine 72:47-72.
• Coelho, J. 1998. An acoustical and physiological analysis of buzzing in cicada killer wasps. Journal of Comparative Physiology, A. Sensory and Neural Behavioral Physiology, 183: 745-751.
• Coelho, J. R. (1997). Sexual size dimorphism and flight behavior in cicada killers (Sphecius speciosus). Oikos. 79, 371-375.
• Coelho, J. R. and K. Wiedman. 1999. Functional morphology of the hind tibial spurs of the cicada killer (Sphecius speciosus Drury). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 8(1):6-12.
• Coelho, J.R. 2009. Cicada killer control. http://www.showmejoe.com/thriller/control.htm
• Coelho, J.R. 2009. Cicada killer bibliography. http://www.showmejoe.com/thriller/ckbib.htm
• Coelho, J.R. and C.W. Holliday. 2000. Effects of size and flight performance on intermale mate competition in the cicada killer, Sphecius speciosus Drury (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 14(3):345-351.
• Coelho, J.R. and C.W. Holliday. 2008. The effect of hind-tibial spurs on digging rate in female eastern cicada killers. Ecological Entomology 33:1-5.
• Coelho, J.R. and C.W. Holliday. 2008. The effect of hind-tibial spurs on digging rate in female eastern cicada killers. Ecological Entomology 33:1-5.
• Coelho, J.R., C.W. Holliday, and J.M. Hastings. The Distributions of Cicada Killers (Sphecius) in North America north of Mexico. Forthcoming.
• 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. Entomological News 119(1):11-18.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dow, R. 1942. The relation of the prey of Sphecius speciosus to the size and sex of the adult wasp (Hym.: Sphecidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 35:310-317.
• Eason, P., G. Cobbs, K. Trinca. July 1999. The use of landmarks to define terrestrial boundaries. Animal Behaviour, 58: 85-91.
• Grant, P. R. (2006). Opportunistic predation and offspring sex ratios of cicada-killer wasps (Sphecius speciosus Drury). Ecological Entomology. 31, 539-547.
• Hastings, J. M., Holliday C. W., Long A., Jones K., & Rodriguez G. (2010). SIZE-SPECIFIC PROVISIONING BY CICADA KILLERS, SPHECIUS SPECIOSUS, (HYMENOPTERA: CRABRONIDAE) IN NORTH FLORIDA. Florida Entomologist. 93, 412-421.
• Hastings, J. M., Schultheis P. J., Whitson M., Holliday C. W., Coelho J. R., & Mendell A. M. (2008). DNA barcoding of new world cicada killers (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Zootaxa. 1713, 27-38.
• Hastings, J.M., J.R. Coelho, & 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., J.R. Coelho, & 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.
• Hilty, J. Editor. 2010. Insect Visitors of Illinois Wildflowers. World Wide Web electronic publication. flowervisitors.info, version (09/2010).
  See: Abbreviations for Insect Activities, Abbreviations for Scientific Observers, References for behavioral observations
• Holliday, C. 2005. "Professor Chuck Holliday's Cicada-Killer Page" (On-line). Accessed January 20, 2005 at http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/cicadakillerhome.html.
• Holliday, C. W., & Coelho J. R. (2006). Improved key to New World species of Sphecius (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 99, 793-798.
• Holliday, C. W., Hastings J. N., & Coelho J. R. (2009). CICADA PREY OF NEW WORLD CICADA KILLERS, SPHECIUS SPP. (DAHLBOM, 1843) (HYMENOPTERA: CRABRONIDAE. Entomological News. 120, 1-17.
• Holliday, C.W. and J.R. Coelho. 2006. Improved key to New World species of Sphecius (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99(5): 793-798.
• Hungerford, H.B. and F.X. Williams. 1912. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 23:241-260.
• Lin, N. 1966. Copulatory behavior of the cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. Animal Behavior 14:130-131.
• Lin, N. 1967. Territorial behavior in the cicada killer wasp Sphecius speciosus (Drury)(Hymenopteraa: Sphecidae) I. Behaviour 20:115-133.
• Manee, A.H. 1915. Notes on cicada-killer. Entomological News 26:266.
• Rau, P. and N. Rau. 1918. Wasp studies afield. Princeton University Press, Princeton. 372 pp.
• Schmidt, J.O. 1990. Hymenoptera venoms: striving toward the ultimate defense against vertebrates. In: D.L. Evans and J.O. Schmidt (eds) Insect defenses: Adaptive mechanisms and strategies of prey and predators. SUNY Press, Albany, pp. 387-419.
• Tashiro, H. 1987. Turfgrass insects of the United States and Canada. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 391 pp.