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This family of insects is famous for its chirping sounds.

Cicada

This family of insects is famous for its chirping sounds.

Cicadas are probably best known by the shrillsound made by the males.

Cicada

Cicadas are probably best known by the shrillsound made by the males.

"In America the cicadas have the general name of <em>Harvest-flies</em>; they are also often improperly called <em>Locusts</em>. There are several species, one of which, the Red-eyed cicada, <em>C. septendicim</em>, is remarkable on account of the popular notion that it appears only once in seventeen years, in the same locality, being supposed to pass the interval in its preparatory stages." &mdash; Goodrich, 1859

Cicada

"In America the cicadas have the general name of Harvest-flies; they are also often improperly…

The popular and generic name of certain insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, suborder Homopotera, of many species.

Cicada

The popular and generic name of certain insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, suborder Homopotera,…

A large insect of the order Homptera.

Cicada

A large insect of the order Homptera.

A cicada is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha, in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with large eyes wide apart on the head and usually transparent, well-veined wings.

Head of Cicada

A cicada is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha, in the superfamily Cicadoidea,…

Nymph (4th stage) of cicada.

Nymph of Cicada

Nymph (4th stage) of cicada.