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About Cicadas:

Cicadas are insects belonging to the family Cicadidae in the order Homoptera. Cicadas are recognizable by their large size (>1 inch) and clear wings held rooflike over the abdomen. Most cicadas are strong fliers that spend their time high in the trees, so they are rarely seen or captured. Their life cycles are long, usually involving multiple years spent underground as juveniles, followed by a brief (roughly 2-6 weeks) adult life above ground. As juveniles and adults, they feed on the xylem fluid of woody plants using piercing and sucking mouthparts. As adults, males produce a loud species-specific mate-attracting song using specialized sound-producing organs called tymbals. source

Are you sure it's not "ohn-whee ohn-whee"?

Because if it is, it's that French woman next door, you know, the one who can't pronounce her r's......she's calling Henry in for his dinner.

Locusts = crickets

jespah wrote:

Locusts = crickets

I'm always learning on a2k... never knew this.

Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids and Locusts

Order Orthoptera
Suborders Ensifera and Caelifera
Most people have encountered grasshoppers at some time and seen them hop away or leap into a short low flight. Similarly, most of us have heard the sound of crickets at night as the males call out for mates. Grasshoppers and crickets are related and together with the katydids and locusts, make up the Order Orthoptera.

Identification
Members of the Orthoptera are usually large bodied insects with the enlarged rear legs adapted for jumping. The rear legs often face backward alongside the body in preparation for a leaping escape from a predator, though some groups have lost the capacity for jumping. Many Orthoptera produce sounds, usually made by males to attract females, by rubbing their forewings together. These sounds can also be made by rubbing their legs against the body or the wings, or by grinding their mandibles (jaws).

The suborder Ensifera, which contains the true crickets, mole crickets, king crickets and katydids, can usually be recognised by the long antennae that may be several times the length of the body. Locusts and short-horned grasshoppers belong in the other suborder, Caelifera, and have shorter and more robust antennae.
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Cicadas are insects belonging to the family Cicadidae in the order Homoptera.

jespah wrote:

Locusts = crickets

I'm always learning on a2k... never knew this.