When I dug up some old shrubs in the early Spring of this year, I ran across many young cicada larvae attached to the roots. Today, we had a cicada on a window screen. My girls were both horrified to look at it ("It's so uuuugly!") and fascinated to hear that this is the source of all that racket coming from the trees!
The above is a pretty good video produced by the BBC that tells about the cicadas.
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I love little leads like this video. My sons found the larvae cases of cicadas all over our tree, so we decided to do a little nature study on them. While searching for a free life cycle page, this came up on the search engine. Thanks for saving me time and adding to our resources! (the boys thought it was hilarious when the cicada crawled on the narrators face, btw!)
You're very welcome, HanRuthie! Thank YOU for commenting. I get so few comments that aren't spam that when I do get a "real" comment, it's almost like my birthday! :)
I haven't seen the larvae cases, but now you'll have me looking. I had no idea!
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