East Aegean cicada
The East Aegean cicada is a big cicada from the coast of Turkey and the Greek islands. The males sit in olive trees and pine trees and sing very loudly. Often many of them sing together like a noisy choir.
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Fun facts
Its song sounds different from the songs of its closest cousins.
It lives on many Greek islands, such as Rhodes, Samos and Kos, and on part of Crete.
Scientists think it became its own kind after it got cut off from its cousins by land and sea.
Males and females are about the same size, around 4 to 4.7 cm long.
Most asked questions about East Aegean cicada
?Is the East Aegean cicada dangerous?
No. It is loud, but it does not bite or sting.
?Why are cicadas so loud?
The males sing to call females, and many of them often sing together at the same time.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cicada mordoganensis
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Cicada mordoganensis (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 (c) Rainer Breitling, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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