Evening cicada
The evening cicada is a reddish brown cicada with green around its eyes. It sings a loud, sad sounding song in the early morning and in the evening. In Japan, its song is a famous sound of late summer and autumn.
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Fun facts
Only the males sing. Their tummy is bigger and partly hollow, which makes their song ring out.
It sings before sunrise and at dusk, and also when it turns cool or cloudy.
Its song changes with the temperature.
In Japan it is also called kanakana, because that is what its song sounds like.
Its song appears in Japanese books and TV shows as the sound of summer evenings.
Most asked questions about Evening cicada
?When do evening cicadas sing?
In the early morning and in the evening, mostly from the end of summer until mid-October.
?How big is the evening cicada?
Males are 28 to 38 millimetres long, females a bit smaller at 21 to 25 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tanna japonensis
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Higurashi, Kanakana
Where the facts come from
- Tanna japonensis (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 Alpsdake. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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