Davis's southeastern dog-day cicada
Neotibicen davisi
Name means: “named after William Thompson Davis, an American cicada expert”
This cicada is a chunky insect from the south-east of the United States that sings loudly from the trees. Dog-day cicadas are named after the hot dog days of late summer, when they sing the most.
Lives in
The south-eastern United States, in trees
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Cicadas cannot sting and do not bite people.
What does it eat?
It drinks sap from trees. Its babies live underground and drink juice from tree roots.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Davis's southeastern dog-day cicada about 12 km/h (7.5 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Only male cicadas sing. They make the sound with drum-like parts on their bodies.
2
Baby cicadas, called nymphs, live underground for a long time before they come up.
3
When a nymph is ready, it climbs up a tree, splits its skin and comes out with wings. The empty skin stays stuck to the bark.
you asked
Most asked questions about Davis's southeastern dog-day cicada
?Do cicadas bite or sting?
No. Cicadas cannot sting and do not bite people.
?Why are cicadas so loud?
The males sing loudly to call females.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neotibicen davisi
- Named by
- Smith & Grossbeck, 1907
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Southern dog-day cicada
Where the facts come from
- Neotibicen davisi (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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