These are AWESOME for fishing and food for any reptile pets!!!! I used to live in Milford Kansas and every year we would go and catch a mess of them !! As a kid , they were amazing!!!!!
Thank you all! by: Darrin
Thanks everyone for your comments.
Annual cicada by: Moni
Darrin
Your insect is a cicada, but it is the annual cicada.
The annual cicada is generally green with tan or black markings and emerge every year or two. There are several genuses of this insect. The insect needs to be looked at with a microscope to figure out which one it is.
The periodic cicadas (Magicicada species) have red eyes, brown wing veins, dark bodies and emerge every 13 or 17 years in mass emergences. When they all emerge the noise they make is very loud and bothersome.
Adults lay eggs in twig stems which are only a problem for nurseries with small trees growing, otherwise they are not considered a pest.
The larvae live underground feeding on plant roots. They pupate there and when ready to turn into adults they crawl up the tree trunk and emerge.
The pupa shell cases are seen on the tree trunks more commonly than the adults are seen.
The sound of the cicadas always indicates that we are in mid to late summer.
Here are photos of the various cicadas - http://bugguide.net/node/view/101/bgimage
perodic circada by: Lynn
The coloring is not right but maybe it is a mutant of some type.
big green bug by: Anonymous
cicada
That is a cicada by: Denise
Pretty ugly. They make all that noise on hot summer days. Live in the ground for 17 years, come out to mate, lay eggs and then die.
