{"id":117,"date":"2010-04-10T06:34:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thaibugs.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2010-04-10T06:34:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:34:35","slug":"cicadas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/?page_id=117","title":{"rendered":"Facts about cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cicada facts<\/h2>\n
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  • Adult cicadas most live 2 to three weeks but some live only for a day or two or less.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • It is easy to tell the sex of cicada adults. Females have blade-like ovipositors visible on the bottom surface of the abdomen, and the males do not. Males possess a pair of sound-producing, or “singing”, organs located on the sides of the first abdominal segment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • The male cicada makes the loudest sound in the insect world; they have their own built-in sound system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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        • The sound made by the male cicada can carry for up to a mile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          • The sound is made by vibrating the ribbed plates in a pair of amplifying cavities at the base of the abdomen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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            • Each sound organ consists of a large plate-like structure, the operculum, which covers a cavity containing a white or yellowish membrane and an oval, ribbed, drum-like structure called a timbal. Timbals are vibrated by strong muscles to produce the cicada song.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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              • Each species has its own distinctive call and only attracts females of its own kind even though rather similar species may co-exist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                • A female cicada lays her eggs in the twigs of trees and shrubs. She places the eggs in small holes that she makes with a sawlike organ near the tip of her abdomen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                  • The female cicada can lay four hundred to six hundred eggs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                    • After the adults have mated both will die.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                      • Different species can be heard at different times of the day. While some prefer mating during the day, others prefer the evening hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                        • 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                          • Cicadas feed by piercing the surface of plants with their mouth stylets. They then suck up the sap through a tube formed by the concave surfaces of two of the stylets. They also suck water out of moist sand on the banks of streams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                            • Male cicadas have been seen to attempt to mate with other males as well as with dead females.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                              Cicada facts Adult cicadas most live 2 to three weeks but some live only for a day or two or less. It is easy to tell the sex of cicada adults. Females have blade-like ovipositors visible on the bottom surface of the abdomen, and the males do not. Males possess a pair of sound-producing, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}