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An illustration of cicada tymbals from C.L. Marlatt's THE PERIODICAL CICADA. c shows the muscles and tendons connected to the tymbals, and Cicadas are insects, best known for the songs sung by most, but not all, male cicadas. Males sing by flexing their TYMBALS, which are drum-like organs found in their abdomens. Small muscles rapidly pull the tymbals in and out of shape. The sound is intensified by the cicada's mostly hollow abdomen. Female and some male cicadas will also make a sound by flicking their wings, but it isn't the same as the Cicadas belong to the order HEMIPTERA, suborder AUCHENORRHYNCHA, superfamily CICADOIDEA and families CICADIDAE (the vast majority of cicadas) or TETTIGARCTIDAE (only two species). Leafhoppers, spittle bugs and jumping plant lice are close relatives of the cicada. Hemiptera are different from other insects in that both the nymph and ad*lt forms have a beak (aka rostrum), which they use to su*k fluids called XYLEM from plants. This is how they both eat and drink. The LATIN ROOT for the word for cicada is CICADA. Cicadas are called SEMI in Japan, CIGALE in France, and CIGARRA in Spain. Names for Cicadas begin life as a rice-shaped egg, which the female deposits in a groove she makes in a tree limb, using her ovipositor. The groove provides shelter and exposes the tree fluids, which the young cicadas feed on. These grooves can kill small branches. When the branches die Once the cicada hatches from the egg it will begin to feed on the tree fluids. At this point, it looks like a termite or small white ant. Once the young cicada is ready, it crawls from the groove and falls to the ground where it will dig until it finds roots to feed on. It will typically start with smaller gras* roots and work its way up to the roots of its host tree. The cicada will stay underground from 2 to 17 years depending on the species. Cicadas are active underground, tunneling and feeding, and not sleeping or hibernating as commonly After the long 2 to 17 years, cicadas emerge from the ground as NYMPHS. Nymphs climb the nearest available tree, and begin to shed