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Cicada Insect:     more books (26)

Cicadas (True Books) by Ann O. Squire, 2004-03 Cicadas (Pebble Plus; Bugs, Bugs, Bugs) by Hall, Margaret, 2006-01-01 The Life Cycle of a Cicada (Things With Wings) by JoAnn Early Macken, 2005-12-15 Cicadas and Aphids: What They Have in Common (Animals in Order Series) by Sara Swan Miller, 1999-09 Cicadas!: Strange and Wonderful by Larry Pringle, 2010-09 Insect Model Kits, Wood, Balsa: Cricket; Gadfly; Cicada Midwest faces cicada invasion; After 17 years underground, noisy insects poised to swarm numerous states.(World Wire): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press by Gale Reference Team, 2007-05-26 Cecily Cicada by Kita Hlmetag Murdock, Patsy Helmetag Murdock, 2004-04-30 A Guide to Australian Cicadas by Maxwell Moulds, M. S. Moulds, 1990-02 Cicadas of Thailand: General and Particular Characteristics. Volume 1 (Pt. 1) by Michel Boulard, 2007-07-01 Fragments of New Zealand entomology: A popular account of all the New Zealand cicadas. The natural history of the New Zealand glow-worm. A second supplement ... and notes on many other native insects by G. V Hudson, 1950 The germ-cells of Cicada (tibicen) Septemdecim (homoptera) ([Princeton university publications. Contributions from the biological laboratories in Princeton university) by Elmer Lentz Shaffer, 1925

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21. Cicadas
    cicada are enclosed in a long, thin, beaklike sheath. The sheath (labium) passes backwards from the lower surface of the head between the legs when the insect  
    http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/cicada.htm
    
    Extractions: @import url("../stylesheets/explore_adv.css"); Back to Explore Back to Fact Sheets Green Grocer after emerging. Photo: Bill Rudman Cicadas are insects. They are classified in the order Hemiptera, which includes all insects with piercing and sucking mouth-parts. (Other insects in this order are bugs, aphids and scale insects). There are more than 200 Australian species of cicadas, most of which belong to the one large family, the Cicadidae. Adult cicadas have stout bodies with two pairs of wings. The wing spans of the different species range from about 2.5 cm - 15 cm. When not in use, the wings fold back along the sides of the body. The longer fore wing covers the short hind wing, but the wings of each side do not overlap. The fore wing is usually glassy and transparent although in a few species it is dull and opaque. The wings are strengthened by a number of thin, firm veins. Adult cicadas have three pairs of legs all about the same length. The femur (or thigh joint) of the fore leg is thicker than that of the other legs 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. The cicada's antennae (feelers) are quite small and bristle-like.

22. Bugs As Food: Humans Bite Back
    A hornworm dish (top) and a bug kabob (bottom) are examples of insect cuisine. Photographs copyright and courtesy David George Gordon More cicada News cicada  
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0416_040416_eatingcicadas.html

23. Cicadas (DesertUSA)
    With the exception of the termite queen, this cicada is probably the longest living insect. The 17year cicada is often incorrectly called the 17-year Locust.  
    http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/july/papr/du_cicada.html
    
    Extractions: That humming, buzzing chorus of insects heard on summer nights is usually due to cicadas small, stout-bodied, large-headed insects with sucking mouth parts. Cicadas are usually green with red and black markings. They are an inch or more in length and have 2 pair of wings. Cicadas also have a 3-jointed beak, an abdomen of six segments, prominent compound eyes, and three eyes (ocelli). Mojave, Great Basin, Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts throughout the southwest. Desert, grasslands and woodlands up to 5,000 feet. Cicadas are of the Family Cicadidae , Order Homoptera . They represent the genera Magicicada and Tibicen . About 1,500 species of cicadas are known, usually occupying deserts, grasslands and forests. More than 100 species are found in North. The Dog-Day Cicada ( Tibicen ) appears yearly in midsummer, but there are also periodic cicadas. The most common of these is the black and green Harvest Fly, which matures in two years. The best-known of these is the 17-Year Cicada ( Magicicada ), which lives only in the United States. After 17 years of dormancy underground, this species emerges for 5 weeks of activity in the sunlight, and then dies. With the exception of the termite queen, this cicada is probably the longest living insect. The 17-year Cicada is often incorrectly called the 17-year Locust. True locusts are grasshoppers.

24. Gordon's Cicada Page
    Australian Cicadas, by MS Moulds (a lovely book). Bibliography. JG Myers (1929) insect Singers a Natural History of Cicadas. George Routledge and Sons. London.  
    http://www.earthlife.net/insects/cicadidae.html
    
    Extractions: Introduction Periodical Cicadas Singing Reproduction ... Myths and Ancient History The word Cicada derives directly from the Latin Cicada, in Greek they are called Tettix, or Tzitzi. Insects were thought by some people to be quite similar to mankind and it was with this thought in mind that J.G.Myers in his lovely book "Insect Singers" wrote the following. It will not therefore surprise one to find the greatest musical artists of the insect world among its deepest drinkers Their sudden appearance in the hottest season of the year, their mysterious feeding habits, and above all their striking musical performances have attracted mankind's attention to the Cicadas for thousands of years. Cicadas are members of the Hemiptera, then the Homoptera, the Homoptera is often considered an order in its own rite these days but in some books you will find it designated as a suborder of the Hemiptera. They are then members of the superfamily Cicadoidea, and the Family Cicadidae, or in the case of two unusual Australian species Family Tettigarctidae. There are about 1500 species of Cicada in the world, some of the largest are in the genera Pomponia and Tacua. Cicadas are mainly warm-temperate to tropical in habitat. There are 202 species in Australia compared with about 100 species in the Palaearctic and only one species in the UK. The British species is Melampsalta montana (was Cicadetta) which is widespread outside of the UK and occurs up to 61

25. Ohio History Central - Nature - Insects - Annual Cicada
    Notes For an insect that people see every summer, the name cicada is often unfamiliar to Ohioans. Many people call this insect a locust. This is incorrect!  
    http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/nature/animals/insects/acicada.shtml
    
    Extractions: Annual Cicada Facts: Scientific name: Tibicen chloromera Habitat: usually treetops Adult size: 3/4 - 2 inches Adult mouth type: sucking Adult foods: Rarely eats in adult form, but may take moisture from plants Flight Period: July - August Life cycle: 2 - 5 year cycles Range: Notes: For an insect that people see every summer, the name cicada is often unfamiliar to Ohioans. Many people call this insect a locust. This is incorrect! Locusts are similar to grasshoppers. Unfortunately, the cicada was misclassified years ago, and the name seems to have stuck. Cicadas can be recognized by their characteristic shape and large size. However, it is the song of the cicada with which people are the most familiar. This loud buzzing sound is made only by the male, and is produced by vibrating internal structures within its drum-like abdomen. There are two common types of cicadas, the annual - also known as dog-day cicadas or harvest flies - and the periodical cicada. The annual cicadas are mostly large, blackish insects with greenish markings and large, clear wings. They appear each year in July and August. The periodical cicada spends much of its life underground, and, once reaching the adult stage, emerges around April and May. The adult periodical cicada will lay eggs on twigs of trees and shrubs. The ends of these twigs often die as a result. The eggs hatch in a month and the nymphs drop to the ground, where they quickly burrow into the soil. They will live in the soil for 13-17 years, feeding on the juices of roots. When the

26. Insect Sounds, Insect Audio, Insect Poster
    All Animals. Insects. Audio of Beetle, Bladder cicada, Queensland Government Environmental Protection Agency, 0.204MB, WAV. Bladder cicada,  
    http://www.junglewalk.com/sound/Insect-sounds.asp
    
    Extractions: This image is in public domain. Counts: Video:492 Audio:110 sites:272 images:448 Common Field grasshopper Avisoft WAV Audio clip of a Common Field grasshopper Red-winged Grasshopper Naturesongs.com WAV Red-winged Grasshopper (He clicks loudly like this as he flies) Acridid Grasshopper Naturesongs.com WAV Acridid Grasshopper Ant Università degli Studi di Pavia (french) WAV Audio of Ant Aquatic Bug The British Library Streaming RAM An aquatic bug stridulating underwater Bee JungleWalk WAV Bee Bee JungleWalk WAV Bee Bee Naturesongs.com

27. Periodical Cicadas
    The picture shows only one insect. The brownish item on the leaf is nothing but the discarded exoskeleton of the above cicada s former form.  
    http://www.backyardnature.net/metamorf.htm
    
    Extractions: I n the spring of 2004, much of the US's eastern coast experienced something amazing. People went into their backyards at night and saw sights similar to that at the right. Thousands of six-legged, honey-colored critters were seen crawling up shrubs, trees, fences, and birdbaths! This picture was taken by J. A. Pyle in Beltsville, Maryland. Most people already knew what was happening because local TV stations and newspapers had informed them that the honey-colored things were the immature stages, or nymphs, of Periodical Cicadas. Cicadas are members of the Homoptera, family Cicadidae , genus Magicicada The deal is that seventeen years earlier adult cicadas had laid eggs in neighborhood trees. Later most of the twigs probably died or weakened, then snapped on a breezy day, broke off, and fell to the ground. What hatched from the egg inside the twig was not a small version of the adult cicada shown at the left with red eyes, but rather a small, wingless version of the brown thing at the bottom of the picture. The brown thing then for 17 years burrowed underground feeding on roots. Then a couple of days before I made the picture at the left, the brown thing climbed up the trunk of a tree, dug its claws into the underside of a leaf, and then the brittle shell split open along its back. The picture at the left shows only one insect. The brownish item on the leaf below is nothing but the discarded external skeleton, or

28. Cicadas In Ancient Greece. Ventures In Classical Tettigology, Cultural Entomolog
    frequents our vast collection of Greek epigrams, and just as the poems are of varied theme and content, so is the cicada s role, for the insect is sometimes  
    http://www.insects.org/ced3/cicada_ancgrcult.html
    
    Extractions: Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 CANADA As a preliminary to showing its relevance to our Platonic dialogue I offer the following brief description of cicadine metamorphosis which I have put together as a sort of cento from the accounts of several modern observers. Although Aristotle's description of the emergence and final moulting of the cicada is rather brief, it conforms quite closely to those of modern observers. This is enough to tell us at the very least, that some Greeks of Plato's time could, as Aristotle or his informants did, observe the relevant phenomena as here described. As souls, and souls with wings at that, the Platonic cicadas have much in common with certain winged souls described in the Phaedrus, though not in the passage about the cicada-men. It must, in any case, be difficult for anyone with a knowledge of the emergence, ecdysis, and wing deployment of cicadas to read a dialogue with repeated and prominent explicit references to cicadas and not to see allusions to the same insects in other parts of the dialogue as well. What I see as some of Plato's references to the life-cycle of the cicada-soul are presented in a diffuse, lyrical and almost mystical manner in a long speech of Eros and the soul of the lover-philosopher-dialectician. Socrates has just finished delivering this speech before the "interlude" on the cicada-men. The Cicada to the Cricket O cricket, you who soothe my passion and provide the consolation of sleep;

29. Www.homefaq.net/cicada-insect.html
    cicadalicious! Mania Set Off with Start of Rare insect Appearance cicada-licious! Mania Set Off with Start of Rare insect Appearance.  
    http://www.homefaq.net/cicada-insect.html

30. The Gardener's Network : Cicada Or 17 Year Locust
    cicada is a flying, plant sucking insect that emerges in period cycles. Because cicada are large insects, a 1/4 netting is effective.  
    http://www.gardenersnet.com/atoz/cicada.htm
    
    Extractions: Bulbs About Cicada In some parts of the country, Cicadas will be the "Pesky Bugs" of 2004. Other areas of the United States will be spared this year, only to experience their own Cicada invasion in some future year. When a particular brood matures and emerges, it is usually in many millions of insects. Fortunately, their adult life span above ground is very brief, lasting about four to 6 weeks. Cicada is a flying, plant sucking insect that emerges in period cycles. Nymphs suck juices from roots of plants. Egg laying females cause significant damage to trees during their brief, adult stage. They are not harmful to humans. Counter to some rumors, they do not bite, nor do they often land on a human or animal. Types There are two basic types of Cicadas:

31. Dog Day Cicada
    cicadas are members of the insect order Homoptera. The cicada s special muscle gets tired after a while and the insect then stops to rest.  
    http://www.gpnc.org/dogday.htm
    
    Extractions: The Harvestfly W eeee-oh, weeee-oh, weeee-oh, weeee-oh, weeee-oh, weeee-oh, weeee-oh - - - from late afternoon to dark, the male Dog Day Cicadas call from their perches in the trees to attract a mate. Starting in mid-summer and continuing for about two months the choruses of these noisy insects are an unmistakeable sign of the season. Cicadas are members of the Insect order Homoptera . Other insects in the same order are Aphids, Scale Insects, Leafhoppers, Treehoppers and the way-cool Froghoppers (also known as Spit Bugs!). Homopterans have a short, piercing/sucking mouthpart which resembles a hypodermic needle and their wings are clear for their entire length. Cicadas use their mouth to suck sap. The forewings of the similar Hemiptera , or True Bugs, have a thickened base. (Some authorities place these two groups as suborders within the order Heteroptera .) Both the Homoptera and the Hemiptera have incomplete metamorphosis , where the egg hatches into a nymph that grows through several stages called instars until it finally transforms into the adult stage. Adults are reproductive and may be recognized by the presence of wings. There are over 160 species of cicada in North America north of Mexico. They come in many different sizes. Some are found in prairies and others are found in woodlands.

32. MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cicada
    cicada, insect widespread in tropical to temperate regions; in the United States cicadas are most abundant in the East and Midwest. Various cicada  
    http://encarta.msn.com/Cicada.html
    
    Extractions: MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money Web Search: logoImg('http://sc.msn.com'); Encarta Subscriber Sign In Help Home ... Upgrade to Encarta Premium Search Encarta Encarta Search results for "Cicada" Page of 1 Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers Cicada Article—Encarta Encyclopedia Cicada , insect widespread in tropical to temperate regions; in the United States cicadas are most abundant in the East and Midwest. Various cicada... related items main article on insects bugs communication feeding behavior ... Homoptera, order of insects including cicadas Article—Encarta Encyclopedia Homoptera , order of plant-feeding insects with membranous wings and piercing, sucking mouthparts. They are closely related to the true bugs (see Bug).... Locusts, name often applied to cicadas Article—Encarta Encyclopedia Locust (insect) , common name applied to a number of jumping insects and especially to the true locusts, which are migratory grasshoppers (see Grasshopper... Spittlebug, related to the cicada Article—Encarta Encyclopedia Spittlebug , common name for members of a family of plant-feeding insects, the nymphs of which cover themselves with a protective frothy material that...

33. MSN Encarta - Cicada
    cicada, insect widespread in tropical to temperate regions; in the United States cicadas are most abundant in the East and Midwest.  
    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578230/Cicada.html
    
    Extractions: MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money Web Search: logoImg('http://sc.msn.com'); Encarta Subscriber Sign In Help Home ... Upgrade to Encarta Premium Search Encarta Tasks Find in this article Print Preview Send us feedback Related Items main article on insects bugs more... Magazines Search the Encarta Magazine Center for magazine and news articles about this topic Further Reading Editors' Picks Cicada News Search MSNBC for news about Cicada Internet Search Search Encarta about Cicada Search MSN for Web sites about Cicada Also on Encarta Editor's picks: Good books about Iraq Compare top online degrees What's so funny? The history of humor Also on MSN Summer shopping: From grills to home decor D-Day remembered on Discovery Switch to MSN in 3 easy steps Our Partners Capella University: Online degrees LearnitToday: Computer courses CollegeBound Network: ReadySetGo Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions Encyclopedia Article from Encarta Advertisement document.write(''); Cicada Multimedia 2 items Cicada , insect widespread in tropical to temperate regions; in the United States cicadas are most abundant in the East and Midwest. Various cicada species are also known as locusts or harvest flies, but they are neither true locusts nor flies. Cicadas are medium-sized to large insects, some species reaching a length of 3.8 cm (1.5 in). The body is stout and the head short, with bristlelike antennae, large eyes, and sucking mouthparts. The two pairs of large wings are transparent, with branching veins. Drumlike membranes on the sides of the abdomen are used to make loud buzzing or shrilling sounds, as a sexual attractant.

34. Insect Jewelry From Luna Parc: Cicada
    cicada in combination of Sterling Silver and Bronze; $220 Size 45mm overall length Click here to return to the Mostly Mechanical insect Jewelry Collection.  
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35. BugsDirectUK.com - Breeders And Suppliers Of Exotic Insects
    one to find the greatest musical artists of the insect world among its musical performances have attracted mankind s attention to the Cicadas for thousands of  
    http://www.bugsdirectuk.com/cicada.html
    
    Extractions: The word Cicada derives directly from the Latin Cicada, in Greek they are called Tettix. Insects are thought by some people to be quite similar to mankind and it was with this thought in mind that J.G.Myers in his lovely book "Insect Singers" wrote the following. "It will not therefore surprise one to find the greatest musical artists of the insect world among its deepest drinkers." Their sudden appearance in the hottest season of the year, their mysterious feeding habits, and above all their striking musical performances have attracted mankind's attention to the Cicadas for thousands of years. 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. Some species take a very long time to develop and the periodical cicadas of the genus Magicicada of North America are well known because some of them have a 17 year life cycle. Periodical Cicadas Unlike most Homopterans, Cicadas tend to be both facing in the same direction during copulation. Copulation as not often been observed in many species, female Melampsalta leptomera a New Zealand grass laying species, has been observed to mate successively between egg laying bouts. Copularion takes about 1 hour in Cicadatra querula.

36. Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
    Brood X is likely to be the largest insect emergence on Earth, said Keith Clay, a cicada expert at Indiana University. Starting  
    http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=509444&

37. Cicadas
    Another insect enemy found in eastern Colorado is the large (approximately 1 inch) cedar beetle, Sandalus niger. These develop as parasites of cicada nymphs.  
    http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05590.html
    
    Extractions: You are here: Home Insects Online Fact Sheets no. 5.590 by W.S. Cranshaw and B. Kondratieff Figure 1: Dog-day cicada. Figure 2: Putnam's cicada. Figure 3: Cicada killer wasp. Cicadas are the largest Colorado insects in the order Homoptera, which includes other sap-sucking groups such as leafhoppers, aphids and spittlebugs. Twenty-six species occur in the state. The largest, the "dog-day cicadas," are stout-bodied insects over 2 inches long. Although abundant, cicadas are far more often heard than seen. Males make a variety of sounds to attract females. Most commonly heard are loud, often shrill, buzzing, sometimes with several individual insects synchronizing their songs. Other cicadas make clicking noises. Despite their large size, cicadas cause little injury. The immature stages (nymphs) develop slowly underground. They feed on roots but cause no detectable harm to the plants. The greatest injury occurs when large numbers of certain cicadas, such as the Putnam's cicada, insert eggs into stems of trees and shrubs. This egg laying injury can cause some twig dieback.

38. Children And Cicadas
    investigations. A field trip to a natural museum to explore an insect exhibit may provide a close up view of a cicada. Seeing an  
    http://www.agnr.umd.edu/HotTopics/Cicadas/cicada_kids.htm
    
    Extractions: Susan K. Walker, Ph.D. Family Life Specialist This year’s visit from the Brood X cicadas is a terrific opportunity to acquaint children with a natural science phenomenon and learn more about insects. Exploring information about cicadas and the seventeen year pattern of their behavior, and observing them during the six week period of their emergence can be fun and interesting. For some children, learning more about the insects before they arrive mid-May may help to calm their fears. Insects can be scary to young children and the sight of a swarm of cicadas can be fairly frightening. So, learning about cicadas with the family will help them prepare for an unusual event that they will experience, and likely hear other children talking about. The internet is a great source of information about cicadas. Some sites also feature web pages created by children, easy fact sheets and fun activities. There's a lot of fun to be learned at the Cicada Hunt at Salt the Sandbox. . This site features children doing a cicada hunt, and learning about them. There are some very good pictures and has fun activities, including puzzles and games. Photos of actual children looking at cicadas may help young children see themselves as explorers of the insects.

39. Cicada: The Other, Other White Meat (washingtonpost.com)
    Although Americans are gradually increasing their intentional insect intake a few bug parts get But when the billions of cicadas belonging to Brood X (the X  
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16047-2004Apr15.html
    
    Extractions: Friday, April 16, 2004; Page A01 When buzzing hordes of 17-year cicadas rise from the earth next month, some people will marvel, some will cower, some will shrug their shoulders. Jacques Tiziou, a Frenchman-turned-American who lives in a tree-fringed colonial in Northwest, will gather as many as he can, eating a few right away and saving the rest for later. Silver-bearded and gentle of disposition, he speaks in accented English that makes even bugs sound irresistible. "You're going to grab one and put it in your mouth alive," he says with a twinkle in his eye. "You have to." Tiziou offers a guest two ways of consuming a few of the cicadas he still has in his freezer from 1987, the year of their last emergence in the Washington area. Some he sautes, leaving them enrobed in parsley and butter. And some he presents plain, black things about as big as the top half of your pinky, wingless but still leggy, on a little white saucer. Cicada-eating has a long history on this continent. The original inhabitants ate them. The current population is less enthralled, or maybe less hungry. Either way, some people are trying to revive human cicada consumption.

40. Washingtonpost.com: Cicada: The Other, Other White Meat
    He s right. His delightful parsleyand-garlic butter certainly perks up the insect s gastronomic appeal. Served plain, cicadas have more crunch than flavor.  
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16047-2004Apr15?language=printer

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