Cicadas

Buffalo Treehopper
Category: Cicada and Similar
Easily recognizeable by its greenish-yellow color and its humpback-like appearance. They namesake comes from the fact that they very much resemble buffalo by the horn-like projections on either side of their pronotum. Buffalo Treehoppers feed on the ... READ MORE

Dog Day Cicada
Category: Cicada and Similar
Seen during the hottest days of the summer, adults have a call that sounds like a circular saw tearing through wood. Larvae is believed to suck the juice/water out of pine tree roots. The species disappears from the area once all pines are gone/... READ MORE

Periodical Cicada
Category: Cicada and Similar
The Periodical Cicada is generally more well known in the Midwest as the Seventeen Year Cicada due to their periodical emergence every thirteen or seventeen years. Cicadas during this time can appear in the hundreds, if not thousands, as mating seaso... READ MORE

Swamp Cicada
Category: Cicada and Similar
These harmless insects are known for the loud buzzing noise the males make in the summer. The mating call attracts females, who deposit their eggs inside twigs of tree branches. The ridges on the legs of cicadas are used to saw off the twigs, allow... READ MORE