Cicadas

1.Cicadas spend most of their lives as nymphs underground. This may be as long as 17 years. Adult cicadas most live 2 to three weeks but some live only for a day or two or less.

2.The male cicada makes the loudest sound in the insect world; they have their own built-in sound system.

3.The sound made by the male cicada can carry for up to a mile.

4.The sound is made by vibrating the ribbed plates in a pair of amplifying cavities at the base of the abdomen.

5.The female cicada can lay four hundred to six hundred eggs.