Amazing chicharra and its sound (Cicadidae)
Hello insect world lovers.
Today I want to contribute a grain of sand to this beautiful and wonderful community of Insects of the world I hope you love this wonderful insect.
Today in the afternoon while I was walking in my house bored with nothing to do, I hear an insect that makes a squeaking sound, and I start to look for it to see where I find it and nothing to find it, it turns out that when I look at the ground I find it making that sound, that so much to hear it began to be uncomfortable in my ears and the animal is this you see in this picture.
I did some research and found out that the scientific name of this insect is:
Cicadidae or commonly known where I live as cicadas, also this insect has a life span of about 2 to 17 years. Incredible, isn't it?
I thought this insect sang but when I read it turns out that in reality these very cute insects do not sing, rather they stridulate, and to make that noise they do not use their phonatory apparatus, their chirping sound usually reaches 86 Hz.
I realized that this very pretty cicada is male and to know how to differentiate its gender is very easy because the male only makes that chirping sound to attract the females, and the females do not make any sound because their role is just to lay their eggs and die after that.
I was also able to read that of this very peculiar insect there are thousands of species of cicadas of the family Cicadidae in all the continents of the world.
This cute Chicharra apparently had already served its time of life because at 7 o'clock at night it was already stiff, that is to say that when it was making the chirping sound and was on the ground it was because it was in agony, that is my point of view. May you rest in peace dear Chicharra.
Content and photographs of my property
| Photos taken with | Samsung Galaxy J7 |
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| Lighting | Natural Light |
That’s a nice post. It’s great how you gathered info on it.
Thank you very much. Yes, this insect is very cute and there are thousands of other insects similar to them.
Good post and information about cicadas. Every year I listen to the song of cicadas. It is an incredible buzz of sound each time.
Thank you very much. Yes, every year they sound at sunset and they are the ones that give the beautiful sound to nature. How amazing is Nature!!!
You're welcome! I agree, nature is incredibly amazing!
Hola @josueprime ciertamente es una publicación bastante completa, imagenes y texto considerable, hiciste un buen trabajo, solo podria decirte que procuraras en tus próximas tomas esperar un poco antes de presionar el obturador a que el lente logre enfocar bien el objeto a capturar, saludos y bienvenido a esta comunidad!
Thanks, that advice you gave me I tried it today and it worked. God Bless you
You found the name and the way they make the sounds but you forgot to add that you need to say where did you read that.
Same for the amount of hertz. When you add that than the way of blogging is going super. People dont know that you are 15 and that you have a future here. So add information and it’s a good job
Oh and another advice I will tell you that you will try to wait a little before pressing the shutter of the telephone for the lens to focus well on the object to be captured, because than the pictures are even more clear. Is this in your house ?
Or excuse me if it's that there wasn't much reflection and if that's the floor of my house that's the part to go out into the garden. Thank you for that new advice, God Bless you.