Cherrynose
The cherrynose is a big Australian cicada with a bright red "nose". Its body is black with orange markings, and its wings are clear like glass. On warm days it sings a trilling song from high up in the gum trees.
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Fun facts
Its red "nose" is not a nose at all. It is full of muscles that help it pump sap out of trees.
Its clear wings are covered with tiny bumps, far too small to see, that keep water off and stop shine.
It sings during the day and at sunset.
Its other funny name is the whiskey drinker.
The scientist who first described it wrote by mistake that it came from Africa.
Most asked questions about Cherrynose
?Why is it called a cherrynose?
Because of the red bump on its face that looks like a cherry-red nose.
?Where does the cherrynose live?
In eastern Australia, high up on tall eucalyptus trees.
?Is a cherrynose cicada dangerous?
No. Cicadas do not sting and are harmless.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Macrotristria angularis
- Named by
- Germar, 1834
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Whiskey drinker
Where the facts come from
- Macrotristria angularis (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 Bidgee. CC BY-SA 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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