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A 4-year-old boy in Wheaton, Illinois, found a blue-eyed cicada in his yard, according to Smithsonian magazine. The family ultimately donated the insect to the Field Museum in Chicago.
The operculum can be seen clearly on this cicada (not Chremistica ochracea).It is round and greenish, located on the abdomen, close to the thorax. Based on diagnosis on all Chremistica species erected by Stål in 1870, their eyes are small or medium-sized, very prominent laterally and set widely apart on their triangular head with the piece of frontoclypeus anteriorly prominent.
All Magicicada species have a black dorsal thorax with red eyes and orange wing veins. [5] Cassini periodical cicadas are smaller than decim periodical cicadas.The abdomen is black except for occasional faint orange-yellow marks on the ventral surface seen in some location.
When the droplets coalesce, the cicada leaps several millimetres into the air, which also serves to clean the wings. [30] Bacteria landing on the wing surface are not repelled; rather, their membranes are torn apart by the nanoscale-sized spikes, making the wing surface the first-known biomaterial that can kill bacteria.
A Green grocer cicada molting A Green grocer cicada drying its wings. Their median total life cycle length is around six to seven years, this being from egg to a natural adult death. [12] Most of this spent as a nymph. The cicada spends seven years in nymph form drinking sap from plant roots underground before emerging from the earth as an adult.
Magicicada septendecim, sometimes called the Pharaoh cicada or the 17-year locust, is native to Canada and the United States and is the largest and most northern species of periodical cicada with a 17-year lifecycle.