Canadian Cicada 1 Magnet

The body of a cicada is similar to that of a violin or a guitar, in that much of it consists of empty, air-filled spaces that act like a resonating chamber and amplify the sound they generate.The loud noise we hear is the male’s mating call—females are silent. Each species of cicada has its own mating call, which can range from soft clicking to loud buzzing.The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of the insects in the order Hemiptera. They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The dark-bodied Canadian Cicada can be identified by the yellow spots on its back.