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Posted: Jul/22/2006 3:36 PM PST
Name the insect.It chrips Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jul/22/2006 3:39 PM PST
Looks like a cicada to me. The things that leave the little brown shells on the trees a few feet off the ground. If it's a big bug about 2 or 3 inches long that's what it is. They're neat to watch hatch if you get a chance to. And what kind of camera do you have? That's got great close-up detail. They also make a rattly sound that drives me nuts this time of year. It's worse because my husband has tinnitus from the Navy and he can't hear them at all! |
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Posted: Jul/22/2006 6:14 PM PST
I agree. Looks like a cicada to me too. |
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Posted: Jul/22/2006 6:24 PM PST
never seen or heard of them....yuk!!! |
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Posted: Jul/22/2006 7:01 PM PST
Take heart, Suzanne! they have a VERY long life cycle so you won't see these again for a loooong time. Their life cycle takes 17 years in northern species (the so-called 17-year locusts) and 13 years in southern species; the two types overlap in parts of the United States. The female deposits her eggs in slits that she cuts in young twigs. In about six weeks the wingless, scaly larvae, or nymphs, drop from the tree and burrow into the ground, where they remain for 13 or 17 years, feeding on juices sucked from roots. The nymphs molt periodically as they grow; finally the full-grown nymphs emerge at night, climb tree trunks and fences, and shed their last larval skin. The winged adults, which generally emerge together in large numbers, live for about one week. Different broods mature at regular intervals, so that at least one colony is conspicuous in some part of the United States each year, and even in a given locality a brood may appear every few years. Other North American cicadas (Tibicen species and others) are known as dog-day cicadas, or harvest flies, because the adults appear in late summer. Their life cycle is thought to be similar to that of the periodical cicadas, but in most species it is completed in two years. Cicada larvae do little damage, but when adults appear in large numbers their egg-laying may damage young trees. Cicadas are sometimes kept for their song in Asia, as they were in ancient Greece. They are classified in the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Homoptera, family Cicadidae. |
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Posted: Jul/22/2006 7:21 PM PST
A very interesting bug. I'm glad we don't get them here though. |
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Posted: Jul/22/2006 10:07 PM PST
They are pretty cool bugs. I watched a bird chasing on in flight and the bird and bug weren't much difference in size! |
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Posted: Jul/23/2006 1:25 AM PST
I love to hear the chirps |
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Posted: Jul/23/2006 1:31 AM PST
Definitely a dog day cicada- The periodic cicadas will be done by now. |
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Posted: Jul/24/2006 5:15 AM PST
Finally I got to see a cicada.They are very noisy insects. Unfortunately for the cicada in pic..My cat Shadow (a furry pesticide),mozied into the garden to check out the object of my interest. Needless to say cicada became hors d'oeuvres!! |
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