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	Cicada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart on the sides of the head, short antennae protruding between or in front of the eyes, and membranous front wings.
		Desert cicadas are also one of the few insects known to cool themselves by sweating, while many other cicadas can raise their body temperatures voluntarily to around 40°C, even when the air temperature is only 18°C. Male cicadas have loud noisemakers called "tymbals" on their sides.
		Cicadas pictures shares facts and pictures regarding cicadas and their behavior, life cycle, and feeding habits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cicada (791 words)

	Cicadas
		Cicadas have large compound eyes situated one on each side of the head They also have three very small glistening simple eyes (ocelli) on the top of the head.
		Cicadas may cause some slowing of the growth of trees from the amount of sap that they consume, but the effects are not very noticeable.
		Cicadas are sometimes known as locusts in Australia, but that term is more correctly applied to certain migratory species of grasshopper.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/cicada.htm (1053 words)

	Cicada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although large, cicadas are difficult to dissect and are not ideal subjects for the study of general insect anatomy.
		The striations characteristic of the cicada clypeus are the external manifestation of ridges for the insertion of the dilator muscles of the pharyngeal pump.
		Cicadas have 10 pairs of spiracles, 2 on the thorax and 8 on the abdomen.
	www.lander.edu /rsfox/310tibicenlab.html (6644 words)

	Gordon's Cicada Page
		Generally speaking cicadas have life cycles that last from one to several years, most of this time is spent as a nymph under the ground feeding on the xylem fluids of plants by piercing their roots and sucking out the fluids.
		Cicadas were used as a diuretic by peasants in Provênce, the exuviae are reported as being used as a cure for ear-ache in China and Japan while Huechys sanguinea an unusually coloured species, it is bright fl and red is commonly used by the Chinese for a variety of medicinal purposes.
		Yes he admits the Cicada dies in winter but that is her allotted life span and not a fault, it is the projection of human character traits, either good or bad, onto groups of animals which is a foolishness not the habits of the cicadas.
	www.earthlife.net /insects/cicadidae.html (4490 words)

	Cicada
		The 13-year and 17-year cicadas, known as periodical cicadas, are both large-bodied insects with orange-veined wings.The periodical varieties look, sound and behave alike.
		Despite their fearsome appearance, with bulging, bright red eyes, cicadas are harmless to animal life and all trees except young saplings.
		After cicada eggs hatch, the tiny, antlike nymphs quickly drop from the trees and burrow five to 46 centimeters (two to 18 inches) underground in search of tree roots to feed upon.
	www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us /4th/kkhp/1insects/cicada.html (705 words)

	UMMZ Periodical Cicada Page
		Cicadas are probably best known for their conspicuous acoustic signals or "songs", which the males make using special structures called tymbals, found on the abdomen.
		Individual periodical cicadas are slower, less flighty, and easier to capture than other cicadas, probably because the safety afforded by their great numbers means that the risks of predation for an individual are low.
		Cicadas infected early in the emergence develop asexual spores, which become evident as the rear of the infected individual's abdomen breaks off, exposing a white, chalky mass of spores.
	insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu /fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/Index.html (4448 words)

	Cicadas (DesertUSA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cicadas are usually green with red and fl markings.
		Cicadas also have a 3-jointed beak, an abdomen of six segments, prominent compound eyes, and three eyes (ocelli).
		Cicadas don't fly when their body temperature is below 72° F, but maintain full motor control up to 116° F. On very hot desert days, they congregate on the shaded sides of plants and rocks.
	www.desertusa.com /mag98/july/papr/du_cicada.html (536 words)

	Periodical Cicadas
		This cicada is sucking sap from a holly twig.
		Cicada nymphs insert their mouthparts into tree roots from which they suck sap (It is thought that tiny, new hatchlings may, at first, feed on grass roots.).
		The wings of cicadas are reported to filter out ultraviolet light, and people who have placed a cicada wing on their skin prior to exposure to the sun have noticed that the spot under the wing does not tan.
	biology.clc.uc.edu /steincarter/cicadas.htm (2690 words)

	Periodical Cicada - Landscape Nursery and Urban Forestry - UMass Extension
		Cicadas and their host plants have been co-evolving for over a million years and their attack on the host every 17 years may appear severe, at the time of attack, but in reality it only a "natural" pruning.
		A female periodical cicada with her ovipositor ("egg-laying tube") inserted into the stem of an oak..
		Ovipositional (egg-laying) scars in an oak stem, caused by the female periodical cicada.
	www.umassgreeninfo.org /fact_sheets/root_shoot_feeders/periodical_cicada.html (669 words)

	USATODAY.com - The day of the cicada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Biologists wonder to what unheard rhythm of life the cicadas are responding, how they know when the correct number of years has passed, and what ecological forces have allowed harmless, non-toxic insects to survive by reproducing in numbers large enough to simply overstuff all predators.
		The annual cicadas that howl from trees during the dog days of August in the Northeast are visually drab, a kind of olive-brown color, but the periodic cicadas are "really kind of spectacular," she says.
		He spoke to a woman who gathered cicada wings and turned them into artwork, he says, and he has heard from people who identify themselves as "cicada babies," because they were born during a year of cicada emergence.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2004-04-11-cicadas_x.htm (1243 words)

	Periodical Cicada
		Immature cicadas are wingless, pale white to tan with a bulbous head and well-developed legs.
		Dogday cicadas are related to the periodical cicada and are usually associated with oaks, maples, and other mature well established trees.
		Dog-day cicadas are larger than periodical cicadas and have brown- fl bodies with whitish highlights and green wing margins.
	www.ext.vt.edu /pubs/entomology/444-276/444-276.html (1134 words)

	Cicada in Chinese Folklore, Cultural Entomology Digest 3
		The depictions of cicadas on the early bronzes vary from quite realistic (6) to highly stylized (13, 16, 17, 22, 24) and almost leaflike (16).
		Speiser (25) and Thompson (28) are wrong in referring to jade cicadas as "crickets." This mistake may be due to the fact that the ancient Chinese sometimes kept male cicadas in order to enjoy their "songs" 9, 10(), as they did with crickets.
		Cicada girdle pendants or toggles (chui-tzu) (5, 16, 29) are very similar in appearance to funeral jades and may have overlapped them in time.
	www.insects.org /ced3/cicada_chfolk.html (1472 words)

	Cicada Invasion Begins: Eastern U.S. Beset by Bugs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A small number of cicada species have synchronized their life cycles so that they emerge from the ground in their billions only once in every 13 or 17 years.
		There are 12 broods, or year classes, among the 17-year cicadas and three broods of 13-year cicadas—so that in almost any given year it is possible to find adult periodical cicadas somewhere in the U.S. Every year periodical cicadas will emerge somewhere in the eastern U.S. Some states have several broods in different locations.
		Cicada "nymphs" fall to the ground after hatching, burrowing into the soil until they find the tree roots that they suck for food until it is time to resurface for breeding.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/03/0329_040329_cicadas.html (1301 words)

	17 Year Cicadas-Selected Internet Resources-Library of Congress
		The development of Periodical cicadas is synchronized, while that of ‘annual’ cicadas’ is not.
		Almost all periodical cicadas grow and mature into adults at the same time, which is why we witness such huge groups of them every 17 or 13 years.
		Cicada Watch 2004 provides a list of frequently asked questions, a cicada calendar, report an emergence survey, cicada events, teaching resources, and a press kit.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/selected-internet/cicadas.html (896 words)

	Cicada Printout - EnchantedLearning.com
		The cicada is a large-bodied, dark-colored, flying insect with four long, transparent wings and large eyes.
		Cicadas are not locusts (locusts are a type of grasshopper).
		Cicadas can damage twigs when eggs are laid in the twig (unlike locusts and grasshoppers who damage plants by defoliation - leaf eating).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/insects/cicada/printout.shtml (494 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Cicada Killer Wasp
		Cicada Killers appear as adults in late June or July, and are mostly seen visiting flowers or digging burrows in sandy or light soil.
		The female then seeks a cicada in the trees, apparently by vision rather than sound, suggested because the majority of her prey are female cicadas which make no sound.
		Cicadas are paralyzed by the venom of the wasp's sting, and will remain alive during the feeding of the wasp larvae.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmnh/buginfo/cickillr%20wasp.htm (661 words)

	Cicada Killer Wasp, HYG-2078A-97
		The adult cicada killer is a very large (1-1/8 to 1-5/8 inches long), robust wasp with a fl body marked with yellow across the thorax (middle part) and on the first three abdominal (rear part) segments.
		Cicadas are captured, paralyzed by a sting and used for food to rear their young.
		Cicada Killer Wasps normally arrive the last week in July and are gone by the second week of August.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/2000/2078A.html (1163 words)

	Cicada, Insects, Cicada, insect, Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Date : 5/17/2006 Time : 10:44:00 PM The cicada, family Cicadidae, order Homoptera, or harvest fly, is a winged, stout-bodied, and blunt-headed insect with sucking mouthparts.
		The cicada sound is made by specialized structures on the abdomen and apparently serves to attract females (and predators).
		Depending upon the species, cicada nymphs remain underground from 1 to 17 years, then emerge.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/insectsindex.asp?counter=6 (172 words)

	People already abuzz over 17-year cicadas
		The 17-year periodical cicadas will burrow through the earth sometime between May 17 and May 25, then buzz around eating plant nutrients and singing their raspy songs throughout their six-week life span.
		The bugs, hatched from eggs laid in 1987, are members of generation Brood X (Roman numeral 10), one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas scattered across the United States.
		Cicadas have been documented in this country since 1633 when Plymouth Colony Gov. William Bradford wrote: "There was such a quantity of a great sort of flies like for the bigness of wasps or bumblebees, which came out of holes in the ground..."
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/02/29/loc_cicadas29.html (1059 words)

	Cicada
		Cicada own the reputation of being the loudest animal in the world.
		Producing a loud whining sound with two tymbal structure that is greatly amplified with air-filled resonating chambers, the cicada is also a proficient ventriloquist, making it hard to locate the actual source of the noise.
		This symbolism comes from an observance of immature cicada emerging fresh from their molded skins.
	www.insects.org /entophiles/homoptera/homo_002.html (142 words)

	cicadakillerhome.html
		Like most hunting and parasitic wasps, the cicada-killer is a beneficial insect; it exerts a measure of biological control on cicadas, which damage shade trees by laying eggs under the soft bark of the new growth on the trees' terminal branches.
		You can help us by catching cicada-killers and the cicadas they use to feed their young and sending them to us; we'll send you a postage-paid shipping container and we'll email you an identification of the cicada-killer when we receive it.
		Still carrying her cicada, she accepted the offer of a "lift" from my hand, crawled up my arm, took off and flew the final 10 feet to her burrow.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~hollidac/cicadakillerhome.html (815 words)

	Cicada
		Cicada succeeded, briefly, in bringing his wife back, only to have her reveal the truth of his original crime.
		Cicada now resides in Iron Heights, living a simple life of contemplation and prayer.
		Cicada’s last name is spelled as Hersh in The Flash Secret Files #3 (2001), but as Hersch in Iron Heights and The DC Comics Encyclopedia.
	www.hyperborea.org /flash/cicada.html (456 words)

	The buzz on cicada
		The cicada may appear rather fly-like to some, but it is actually closely related to the much smaller aphids and leafhoppers.
		Once mating is complete, the female slits an opening in a small branch or twig with her ovipositor and deposits a small cluster of eggs.
		The adult cicada is not known to feed although it possesses a rather formidable looking mouth part that has been known to give a good poke to a careless handler or two.
	www.wnrmag.com /stories/1999/jun99/cicada.htm (393 words)

	WKRC 12 Cincinnati - The Weather Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cicadas are flying, plant-feeding insects, belonging to the family Cicadidae...
		Damage to deciduous trees (especially oak, apple, dogwood, and hickory) occurs when the female cicada cuts two parallel slits in small (pencil-sized) twigs where she lays 24 - 48 eggs.
		Periodical cicadas are especially damaging to young plants that have the most desirable branch size for egg laying.
	www.wkrc.com /weather/cicadaseason/default.aspx (161 words)

	CICADA, Cricket Inspired perCeption And Decision Automata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This project aims to contribute to the scientific and technological advancements of life-like perception systems within the European Community by providing novel concepts for the integration of sensing-perception-action functions, based on exciting scientific work on biological paradigms and state-of-the-art developments in MEMS, composite material science and electrophysiology.
		CICADA is a truly transdisciplinary project combining first rate European expertise in sensory ecology, material sciences, MEMS technology and living computers.
		More information can be found on the official CICADA web site and on the EU project site.
	tst.ewi.utwente.nl /research/sensors/cicada (358 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Cicadas
		The male cicada vibrates the membranes on the side of its body to attact female cicadas.
		Cicadas Are Coming: In a few weeks, nymphs will crawl out of the ground.
		This summer's emergence of trillions of cicadas may be over, but the science arising from Brood X's dessicated carcasses has just begun.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/metro/specials/cicadas (473 words)

	Carus Publishing Company/Cricket Magazine Group: Submission Guidelines: CICADA
		CICADA, for readers age 14 and up, publishes original short stories, poems, and first-person essays written for teens and young adults.
		CICADA would like to reach as many authors and illustrators as possible for original contributions, but our standards are very high, and we will accept only top-quality material.
		CICADA will consider any manuscripts or art samples sent on speculation and accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
	www.cricketmag.com /pages_content.asp?page_id=22 (470 words)

	Cicadas!
		Adult periodical cicadas are plant-sucking insects that are approximately 1.5 inches long and have reddish-orange eyes, fl bodies, and large amber wings.
		Cicada nymphs spend the bulk of their life approximately eight to ten inches underground, sucking juices from tree roots.
		Cicadas are eaten in Australia, Thailand, Japan, and Papua New Guinea and were considered a delicacy by the ancient Romans and Greeks.
	www.cincinnatilibrary.org /features/cicadas2004.asp (998 words)

	National Museum of Racing - Hall of Fame
		Cicada's best season came at 2 when she won the Gardenia, Frizette, Matron, Spinaway, and National Stallion Stakes, among others.
		Cicada came back for one race at 5 when it was discovered that she had lost her earlier form.
		Cicada was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1967.
	www.racingmuseum.org /hall/horse.asp?ID=46 (250 words)

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