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  2. Neotibicen - Wikipedia

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    One of the more notable predators is the cicada killer, a large wasp that catches the dog-day cicada. After catching and stinging the insect to paralyze it, the cicada killer carries it back to its hole and drags it underground to a chamber where it lays its eggs in the paralyzed cicada.

  3. Cicadinae - Wikipedia

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    Exuviae of Tibicen plebejus nymph (Cryptotympanini) Annual Cicada, Neotibicen. The Cicadinae are a subfamily of cicadas, containing the translucent cicadas.They are robust cicadas and many have gaudy colors, but they generally lack the butterfly-like opaque wing markings found in many species of the related Tibiceninae.

  4. Cicada - Wikipedia

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    In Australia, cicadas are preyed on by the Australian cicada killer wasp (Exeirus lateritius), which stings and stuns cicadas high in the trees, making them drop to the ground, where the cicada hunter mounts and carries them, pushing with its hind legs, sometimes over a distance of 100 m, until they can be shoved down into its burrow, where the ...

  5. Sphecius - Wikipedia

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    Cicada killer wasps (genus Sphecius) are large, solitary, ground-dwelling, predatory wasps. They are so named because they hunt cicadas and provision their nests with them, after stinging and paralyzing them.

  6. Cicadidae - Wikipedia

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    One member of this family, Brevisana brevis, the "shrill thorntree cicada", is the loudest insect in the world, able to produce a song that exceeds 100 decibels. [6] Male cicadas can produce four types of acoustic signals: songs, calls, low-amplitude songs, and disturbance sounds. [ 7 ]

  7. Periodical cicadas - Wikipedia

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    The term periodical cicada is commonly used to refer to any of the seven species of the genus Magicicada of eastern North America, the 13- and 17-year cicadas.They are called periodical because nearly all individuals in a local population are developmentally synchronized and emerge in the same year.

  8. Cicadomorpha - Wikipedia

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    Cicadomorpha [1] is an infraorder of the insect order Hemiptera which contains the cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, and spittlebugs.There are approximately 35,000 described species worldwide.

  9. Cicadas won't be the only thing emerging in 2024. What to ...

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    Cicadas won't be the only insects emerging during the summer months. When Brood XIX emerges in Tennessee mid-May, they'll face a unique, venomous predator — killer cicada wasps. The wasps, which ...