Dogday harvestfly
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Tibicen canicularis, also known as the Dogday Harvestfly or the Annual Cicada is a species of cicada
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cutting wood
. It lasts for several seconds before fading away at the end of the noise.
Common habitats are mixed and deciduous
woods in Canada
and the Eastern United States
.
Nymphs of the species commonly feed on pine juice and the roots of pine and oak, while the adults are not known to eat at all.
Cicada
A cicada is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha , in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with large eyes wide apart on the head and usually transparent, well-veined wings. There are about 2,500 species of cicada around the world, and many of them remain unclassified...
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Description
T. canicularis is recognizable by being mostly black with green markings on on its body. The body size is typically 27-33 millimeters, the wingspan can reach 82 mm. The wings are interlaced with green veins which are especially noticeable near the base. The song of T. canicularis is often described as being a loud, high-pitched whine much like like a power sawSaw
A saw is a tool that uses a hard blade or wire with an abrasive edge to cut through softer materials. The cutting edge of a saw is either a serrated blade or an abrasive...
cutting wood
Wood
Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression...
. It lasts for several seconds before fading away at the end of the noise.
Common habitats are mixed and deciduous
Deciduous
Deciduous means "falling off at maturity" or "tending to fall off", and is typically used in reference to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally, and to the shedding of other plant structures such as petals after flowering or fruit when ripe...
woods in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and the Eastern United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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Nymphs of the species commonly feed on pine juice and the roots of pine and oak, while the adults are not known to eat at all.