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  2. Why are 17-year cicadas so loud, and how do they make noise?

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    How do cicadas make noise? PJ Liesch holds up a male 17-year cicada and shows the tymbal under its wings. The tymbal is the small white section of the insect with thin, black lines.

  3. Cicada - Wikipedia

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    Males disable their own tympana while calling, thereby preventing damage to their hearing; [45] a necessity partly because some cicadas produce sounds up to 120 dB (SPL) [45] which is among the loudest of all insect-produced sounds. [46] The song is loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss in humans should the cicada be at "close range". In ...

  4. The buzzing bugs emerged in April, but some of us can’t wait for them to leave. Here’s what to know about their expected departure. Cicada noise can ‘overwhelm’ people with sensory issues.

  5. Auchenorrhyncha - Wikipedia

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    It is also common for Auchenorrhyncha species to produce either audible sounds or substrate vibrations as a form of communication. Such calls range from vibrations inaudible to humans, to the calls of many species of cicadas that can be heard for hundreds of metres, at least. In season, they produce the most characteristic and ubiquitous noise ...

  6. Periodical cicadas - Wikipedia

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    An adult cicada's proboscis can pierce human skin when it is handled, which is painful but in no other way harmful. Cicadas are neither venomous nor poisonous and there is no evidence that they or their bites can transmit diseases. [13] Oviposition by female periodical cicadas damages pencil-sized twigs of woody vegetation.

  7. Millions of cicadas are blanketing Lake Geneva. Here's what ...

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    The cicadas first emerged in Lake Geneva about three weeks ago, and their population is currently at its peak, said PJ Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Insect Diagnostics ...

  8. Cicadas come with an itchy pest — tiny mites that can cause ...

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    This year's cicada emergence was a double whammy of insects, with two groups of periodical cicadas that only come out of the ground every 13 or 17 years making a simultaneous appearance. But even ...

  9. Cicadidae - Wikipedia

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    The earliest fossils of cicadas more closely related to Cicadidae than to Tettigarctidae date to the Jurassic period. The morphology of well preserved stem cicadids from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar suggests that unlike many modern cicadas, they were either silent or only made quiet sounds. [2] The oldest modern cicadids date to ...