Today's wings photo from my Janice my roving photo journalist
She capture this most amazing close up of the elusive Cicada
always heard rarely seen.
I was truly amazed to finally see one in all my years, I have never ever NO never seen
one.
Below info pasted from Google
The cicadas (/sɪˈkɑːdə/ or /sɪˈkeɪdə/) are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha,[a] along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two families, Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and Cicadidae, with more than 3,000 species described from around the world; many species remain undescribed.
Cicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart, short antennae, and membranous front wings. They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. The earliest known fossil Cicadomorpha appeared in the Upper Permian period; extant species occur all around the world in temperate to tropical climates. They typically live in trees, feeding on watery sap from xylem tissue and laying their eggs in a slit in the bark. Most cicadas are cryptic. The vast majority of species are active during the day as adults, with some calling at dawn or dusk. Only a rare few species are known to be nocturnal.
One genus, the periodical cicadas spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerging only after 13 or 17 years. The unusual duration and timing of their emergence may reduce the number of cicadas lost to predation, both by making them a less reliably available prey (so that any predator who evolved to depend on cicadas for sustenance might starve waiting for their emergence), and by emerging in such huge numbers that they will satiate any remaining predators before losing enough of their number to threaten their survival as a species.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteGolly - really? I have seen so many... The ones in OZ have beautiful green/bronze wing covers and if you find one you can place it on your shirt or jumper and it clings on like a gorgeous brooch! YAM xx
wow that means we can still find a kind of cicades what has no name? it could be named by us then...
ReplyDeleteI only gotten to see one or two and they're huge.
ReplyDeleteWhen we lived on the Tiny Ten we hit one of those years with a bazillion of them coming out of the ground. They were LOUD! They actually damaged a few of our trees. There were so many of them we had to rake them up. It was kinda creepy but interesting. A most excellent picture!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen one in a long time. The 1st time I did I thought it was a giant mutated horse fly.
ReplyDeleteLet me stay here that I have seen many many many of these cicadas and that I wish I had never seen any and the sound they make in the mornings and evenings is enough to drive me completely over the wall and they're here now. But they're not as vocal as they usually are they only do it once in awhile. And we have a Blog friend Linda Chapman who loves to hear the cicadas sing
ReplyDeleteYou always know it's late summer when the cicadas start singing. They sure are noisy.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen one either and I'm so happy you did too. Thank you for the history lesson.
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Yes, they are noisy and we're not super happy when they show up. That's a terrific photo though!
ReplyDeleteI see anywhere from 3 to 5 every year; this year so far the count is at 3 !! :)
ReplyDeleteIf you want to catch one, wait for a cool morning towards the end of summer. The cool weather makes them fall out of the trees. But you have to be early, otherwise the birds will have eaten them.
ReplyDeleteThe sound of the cicada evokes some where hot and exotic to us Northern Europeans!
ReplyDeleteI knew nothing about them so thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI see them all the time in my Oregon backyard. They are much bigger than I imagined! Sometimes they are so high pitched they hurt my ears!
ReplyDeleteUgh, we see them every year, and they leave those exoskeletons everywhere!
ReplyDeleteNot my favorite insect, but I don't hate them or anything.
One year we stayed in a hotel in Spain and the cicadas would go in the trees outside our window. Every morning and night the sound was deafening!
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing cicada husks when we lived in Texas...but rarely caught the sight of a live one!
ReplyDeleteOh golly - I see them here and can remember as a little girl loving their sound - not so much these days though....sort of annoying!!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam
The cicadas we see are usually the dead ones on the ground:( But we sure do HEAR them at night. Timber actually caught one in flight. It buzzed in his mouth and he let it go very quickly:)
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I've never seen one before....love their evening music!
ReplyDeleteOh what a wonderful photo! We love cicadas!
ReplyDeleteGood Golly! Non of us (including Mom) has seen oneof These! Thanks for sg
ReplyDeleteHaving the informations! It is totally interesting! AND THANKS for finding Us! We had email and blogging issues and wes sorted it out by starting a new blog with Nellie's email.
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Marv, Jo Jo, Kozmo, Cinnamon and Angel Nellie
I have never seen one. XO
ReplyDeleteWe have quite the orchestra in the evening with competition between those, crickets and frogs .. it is wonderful !
ReplyDeleteWow though ... I haven't seen one close up like that before !
Thank you for sharing your cicada information. We have certainly heard them but not seen them.
ReplyDeleteThat was really interesting. The hubby and I saw one near a water drain in front of our house just last week. He said he didn't think it was the right year for them, but maybe it wasn't one that stays underground for so many years. I'll have to tell him!
ReplyDeleteWe used to get locusts in our yard and I think they are the same thing. My dogs used to think of them as a delicacy. Bentley would track them down and munch them if I didn't catch him.
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