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Walker's Cicada
Tibicen pronotalis
33.2148, -97.1331
Field Notes
Description:
Orange body with black and white shapes on its back. Its abdomen is covered in this white hairy stuff. While holding it, it doesnt really try to escape, but when you hold it from its sides it tends to screech really loud. The sound apparently is coming from several plates in its abdomen vibrating against each other. This is different from a grasshopper or cricket, which rub their legs against their wings to make the sound. Really quite an interesting insect since it doesnt have and mandibles or a mouth as we expect an insect would have. Instead it has a straw like tube which I expect is meant to suck flower nectar.
Habitat:
Up in trees.
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