MEGA Cicada season study of 2020 / 2021 looking the Cicada broods in my neighbourhood. It was a HUGE Cicada year with a nice variety of rare and interesting Cicada's to be found. This time the whole Cicada season study is set as one video, that way you get a real feel for the way Cicada's mysteriously appear then disappear. The local school has set up a neat way to kill off a whole brood of Cicadas, so incredibly educational. My 7 year Cicada big brood study was completely destroyed.

This is the Australian Cicada season and the Cicada's life cycle tends to be 7 years. There are lots of mysteries related to Cicada's, they seem not to have a job in nature and understand prime numbers. We only really see them in their final weeks of life as they emerge as adult's to breed and lay eggs on trees. It's the transformation from nymph to adult that is one of the most dangerous moments in a Cicada's very long life.

The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two families, Tettigarctidae, with two species in Australia, and Cicadidae, with more than 3,000 species described from around the world; many species remain undescribed. Cicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart, short antennae, and membranous front wings. They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. The earliest known fossil Cicadomorpha appeared in the Upper Permian period; extant species occur all around the world in temperate to tropical climates. They typically live in trees, feeding on watery sap from xylem tissue and laying their eggs in a slit in the bark. Most cicadas are cryptic. The vast majority of species are active during the day as adults, with some calling at dawn or dusk and only a rare few species are known to be nocturnal. The periodic cicadas spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerging only after 13 or 17 years, which may reduce losses by starving their predators and eventually emerging in huge numbers that overwhelm and satiate any remaining predators. The annual cicadas are species that emerge every year. Though these cicadas have lifecycles that can vary from one to nine or more years as underground larvae, their emergence above ground as adults is not synchronized, so some appear every year. The Australian cicada spends seven years in nymph form drinking sap from plant roots underground before emerging from the earth as an adult. The adults, who live for six weeks, fly around, mate, and breed over the summer.

Video posted as educational, documentary, and scientific and forms part of my Insect / spider study series of videos.
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Web Links :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloch...
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn...
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articl...
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