Cicadas
Lifecycle
Noise
Names and Types
Description
Habitat and Food
Other
Underground 17 years
Gum trees
Yellow Monday colour
Black Prince colour
Green Grocer colour
Floury Bakers colour
She-oak tree on banks of rivers
some noises can't be heard by humans
block ears so they don't go death
green grocer is loudest cicada
brown, soft and ugly
sensitive wings
2.5cms long - 15cms wings
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Lifecycle
nymphs turn into adults in one night
live underground most of their life
adult cicidas only live for a few weeks 2-4
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female cicadas lay rice shaped eggs in slits of trees
Sap from roots
Hard to keep alive in capivity
Black Prince not comon in city areas
Double Drummer noise
Nymph (baby cicada)
2 pairs of glassy and transparent wings
6 legs
Nymph shed, wings fill with fluid and then harden
stout body