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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. The cicada ...

3. Cicada noise can ‘overwhelm’ people with sensory issues. When ...

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   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.

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. Brood X - Wikipedia

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   The ad portrayed a cicada's face changing into a picture of a confused-looking Kerry while stating: Every 17 years, cicadas emerge, morph out of their shell, and change their appearance. Like a cicada, Senator Kerry would like to shed his Senate career and morph into a fiscal conservative, a centrist Democrat opposed to taxes, strong on defense."

6. 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 ...

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

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   Cicadas can be heard throughout Lake Geneva. The cicadas are at their loudest between 10 a.m. and dusk, Liesch said. Still, you can hear them outdoors (and sometimes even through the windows and ...

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. Amphipsalta zelandica - Wikipedia

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   Amphipsalta zelandica Chorus cicada carved on pare on display at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection at Landcare Research, Auckland. The song made by cicadas is the loudest noise made by any insect. Male chorus cicadas produce a communication song that is specific to their species, and so species can be identified by their song.