Bush cicada
The bush cicada is a big cicada that lives in the tall grass prairies of the middle of the United States. Like other cicadas, the males sing loudly to call the females. Its other name, the giant grassland cicada, tells you where to find it.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It lives only in the tallgrass prairies of the central United States and nowhere else in the world.
Like in other cicadas, it is the males that make the loud singing sound.
A special kind of fly finds the singing males by listening to their song, and its young then grow inside the cicada.
Most asked questions about Bush cicada
?Where does the bush cicada live?
Only in the tallgrass prairies of the central United States.
?Is the bush cicada dangerous?
No. It is harmless and only drinks plant sap.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Megatibicen dorsatus
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Giant grassland cicada
Where the facts come from
- Megatibicen dorsatus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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