Our insect friends and foes - The Cicada
Media
Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
- Title
- Our insect friends and foes - The Cicada
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1937
- Subject
- Insects.
- Cicada (Genus)
- Rights
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- Abstract
- Have you ever tried to catch a cicada just to find out how it produces all the noise it makes? The cicada is especially built for noise making It is a living sounding board. The cicada accomplishes these results by means of drums. It has two drums under its abdomen, made of dry, crisp ribbed membranes. These drums are cupped out and look something like shells from the sea shore. To the inside of them are attached strong muscles. With these muscles it vibrates the stiff membrane in and out.