Cicada
Male cicadas can ‘sing’ very loudly. They use special membranous areas of their exoskeleton, called timbals, to produce sound. The sound is in the form of rapid clicks that are amplified by hollow areas of the cicada’s abdomen.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 314/2007/1
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- cicada
- Simple Name
- insect:bug
