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Taken on a walk around the farm.
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As summer winds down at the Delaware seashore, the cicadas are still present with their summer 'symphony'. This is an annual Cicada, dubbed a Dog Day Cicada. Only the males of the species generate the sound we hear that is associated with hot summer days. They make the sound with tymbals, which are under the white patches (covers) seen on either side of the body, just under the edge of the wing.
This image consisted of 27 images stacked, using Helicon FB tube to facilitate the capture and Helicon Focus SW to process the stack. I suggest zooming to see the 'front end array' on this bug. Quite impressive!
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Freshly emerged, perched on exuvia. In this situation they're quite still, and it's pretty easy to get a good set of images for stacking. This was from 17, stacked with Helicon.
I continue my jungle series with a rare sighting of a cicada. Throughout our forays into the jungle they dominate the sound of the forest but are rarely seen. This one took up residence in my daughter's treehouse which did not go down well so I had to remove it so that it could carry on with the din it creates outside.
Most cicadas found in Thailand are brown or grey with patches of green, however they can also have other colors.
Cicadas live in temperate to tropical climates, where they are one of the most widely recognized of all insects due to their large size and remarkable (and often inescapable) acoustic talents. Only the males of the species make such a loud noise, trying to attract females. The sounds vary a lot from one species to the other and are actually the result of a vibration of the tymbal (special membranes) in the abdomen of the male specimen. At close range the volume of the cicada’s love calls can be up to 120dB, similar to the volume of an aircraft taking off.
These huge wasps, harmless to humans, attack and paralyze cicadas more than 5 times their size, drag them back to their nests and lay their eggs on them. The hapless cicada is eaten alive as the eggs hatch and the larvae begin to feed on them. It's a tough world.
reehoppers and thorn bugs are members of the family Membracidae, a group of insects related to the cicadas and the leafhoppers. About 3,200 species of treehoppers in over 400 genera are known. They are found on all continents except Antarctica; only five species are known from Europe
I just saw this, this morning.
You can see where he crawled up the fence post in the night, then came out of his shell / exoskeleton.
Photograph was taken in nature (cicadas sitting on olive tree bark) with the use of extension tubes. The photograph shows the top of the head with the compound eyes and the three small ocelli located on the top of the head between the two large eyes.
View in large plus.
Found on the window ledge outside my home office. I live surrounded by a heavily wooded county park, and the noise from thousands (millions?) of cicadas is deafening. You can even see the smaller wings underneath the larger outer wings. Amazing structure of the wings. Their bodies are so big, they can’t really fly that far or that accurately.
The tiny bug looks like a cicada to me, but I looked it up and I don't think they are ever that tiny.