Cicada (Adult)

A familiar summer sound is the buzzing or whining "song" produced by vibrating membranes at the base of the abdomen, of male cicadas. About 75 species of cicadas. Young crawl or fall to the ground and eat roots of trees. It takes from 4 to 20 years to complete development. The mature nymph leaves the soil by night in the late spring or summer and climbing partly up a tree trunk, takes a secure hold. Then skin splits down the center of the back and the adult emerges, leaving the nymphal skin attached to the back