Cicada Rescue Mysterious Life Of Cicadas Warning VERY LOUD ─ leokimvideo

Cicadas are amazing harmless insects. They live most of their life doing mysterious things underground only to emerge in the final weeks of their life to feed breed and fly around. Cicada's life cycle is bound by prime numbers and this varies depending on the breed of Cicada. Many Cicadas become bird or ant food, but the majority do breed to continue the life cycle. I found two cicada nymphs which were attempting to get past a clay planter. With the ant's nest near by I decided to rescue these cicadas to another spot where they could emerge whenever they had the urge. And it's this timing that's part of their mystery. I know that's sometimes Cicadas do get it wrong. We had a Cicada in May this year and I did videos about that strange find. Natures timing is usually perfect, but sometimes there are little mistakes.

Cyclochila australasiae, commonly known as the green grocer, is a species of cicada and one of Australia's most familiar insects. It is distributed through coastal regions of southeastern Australia. It is one of the loudest insects in the world. Cyclochila australasiae was formerly commonly known as the Great Green Cicada; in addition, the various colour forms have different vernacular names, including yellow Monday for a common yellow morph; Chocolate Soldier for a rare dark tan form; and Blue Moon for a rare turquoise form. The names for the green and yellow forms have been recorded since at least 1896. Walter Wilson Froggatt reported that the green form was known as green Monday (alongside yellow Monday for the yellow form) in his 1907 work Australian Insects. The 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.

Cicadas have prominent eyes set wide apart, short antennae, and membranous front wings. They have an exceptionally loud song, produced not by stridulation, but by vibrating drumlike tymbals rapidly. 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 sap and laying their eggs in a slit in the bark. Most cicadas are cryptic, singing at night to avoid predators. 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 cicada have life cycles 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.

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