Cicadas

Seldom seen, cicadas are best known in Florida for their loud, buzzing calls heard during the day. Those empty shells you often see on the trunks of trees or on shrubs are cast-off nymphal skeletons.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Featured Creatures: Cicadas of Florida
• Featured Creatures: Giant Ground Hornet, Cicada Killer
• North American Cicadas
• Recognizing Crickets, Katydids, and Cicadas

UF/IFAS Publications

• Cicadas (of Florida), Neocicada hieroglyphica

Other Sites

• Cicada Central--University of Connecticut
• Scientists Surprised By Unexpected Emergence Of Periodical Cicadas, Four Years Early--Science Daily