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Cicadas are insects belonging to the family Cicadidae in the order Hemiptera. Cicadas are recognizable by their large size (body length of usually about 1 inch in length or longer) and clear wings held rooflike over the abdomen. Most cicadas are strong fliers that spend their time high in the trees, so they are rarely seen or captured. Their life cycles are long, usually involving multiple years spent underground as juveniles, followed by a brief (roughly 2 - 6 weeks) adult life above ground.
Common habitats for Tibicen canicularis are mixed and deciduous woods in Canada and the eastern United States. Geographic range includes the northern United States and southern Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.
When mature Tibicen canicularis is recognizable by being mostly black with brown or green markings on its body. The body size is typically 1 - 1.3 inches (27-33 mm) long and the wingspan can reach 3.22 inches (82 mm). The wings are interlaced with green veins which are especially noticeable near the base. While nymphs of the species commonly feed on pine juice and the roots of pine and oak, the adults are not known to eat at all.
As adults, males produce a loud species-specific mate-attracting song using specialized sound-producing organs called tymbals. These sounds are among the loudest produced by any insects. In some species, the male calling song attracts both males and females to mating aggregations, while in other species males remain dispersed. Female cicadas do not have tymbals, but in some species the females produce clicking or snapping sounds with their wings.
Their song is often described as being a loud, high-pitched whine much like a power saw. It fades within 10 - 20 seconds, and starts again after a few seconds of silence. From my observation Tibicen canicularis tends to be the most vocal mid to late morning and then again late afternoon. It's common not to hear them during mid-day. At the peak of the season in late summer they can almost be deafening. To hear the sound of these cicadas, which was taped here in Indiana, please click on the below link...
www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/bio/zoo/dogday.htm
After mating, females lay eggs in bark or twigs; the eggs hatch later in the season and the new nymphs burrow underground and begin feeding on roots. Tibicen canicularis spends most of it's life cycle underground as nymphs feeding on root juice. Typically 2 - 3 years. When it comes time to emerge and molt into an adult it uses its strong front legs for digging to the surface. Unlike periodical cicadas, whose swarms occur at 13 or 17 year intervals, Tibicen species can be seen every year, hence their other nickname "Annual Cicadas".
ISO800, aperture f/10, exposure .008 seconds (1/100) focal length 300mm
Cluster of early instar bugs, thought to be either Boxelder bugs or perhaps reduviids. Photographed in upper Essex County by Bess Haile.
2 of 2, this small Hemiptera was on grass at the trailhead, Millville, Cochise County, AZ, 13 August 2015
Fred photographed this beauty on a young Eucalyptus leaf in the back yard.
It had grown too big for it's old skin and was freshly emerged.
Photo: Fred
A wonderful broad-winged dipteran. This species is highly sexually dimorphic, with the males wings being far more patterned. They also have stronger orange patches of hair on the sides of the thorax.
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Fred photographed this beauty on a young Eucalyptus leaf in the back yard.
It had grown too big for it's old skin and was freshly emerged.
Photo: Fred
Family: Miridea
Order: Hemiptera
This bug can be identified to the Miridea family by two feint closed loops of veins on the membranous part of the forewing and by the cuneus present on the scleritised hemelytra of the forewing.