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<h2 id="habitat">Habitat</h2>
<p>The wasps occur in warm, dry areas where there are enough <a href="/facts/Tree/3q0G4cbP">trees</a> to support <a href="/facts/Cicada/cYYh0HVr">cicadas</a>, such as the <a href="/facts/Murray-Darling_basin/4ThYJkvV">Murray-Darling basin</a>, the south-east coast of the Australian mainland including Sydney, and <a href="/facts/Tasmania/q3dubPTt">Tasmania</a>.
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<h2 id="predation-method">Predation method</h2>
<p><i>Exeirus lateritius</i> stings and paralyses cicadas high in the trees, making them drop to the ground, from where the wasp moves them to its burrow, pushing with its hind legs, sometimes over a distance of a hundred meters. The paralysed cicada is placed on one of many shelves in a "<a href="/facts/Catacomb/LVPPpVSw">catacomb</a>", to form the food-stock for the wasp grub which grows out of the egg deposited there.,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> sometimes as deep as 60 cm underground<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Tillyard, P (1926), The Insects of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, pp. 298–99 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Giant Cicada Killer Wasp Buries Cicada on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xY4vDk6lsE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xY4vDk6lsE</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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