thelope.com - Tibicen pruinosus cicada singing and crawling; good side view

[sunshine19967]

in texas, but they sound slower

[sunshine19967]

what kind of cicada is it??? i hear the same thing but i don't know what kind of cicada

[acejackalope]

@sunshine19967 The species of cicada is listed in the title. This is Tibicen pruinosus, an annual cicada. It's common right now in the Midwest. It has a close relative in the east and southeast. In what city are you located?

[phillyP84]

This is the cicada sound i was looking for for the last 2 hours, i thought it was a bird sound i was after, then it struck me, i was looking for the wrong species.

If anyone finds out what type of cicada this is, please mail me, I always hear it on movies and I love it, beats the sound of traffic noise i can hear at mine

[acejackalope]

@phillyP84, this is Tibicen pruinosus, an annual cicada common to the Midwest and Southeast (at least). There is a sub-species or related species (relationship seems in debate) called Tibicen winnemana or Tibicen pruinosus winnemana that looks and sounds almost the same and exists in some East Coast states. I've learned a lot about cicadas since I first posted this and really need to update titles and descriptions - I think I'll do that for this one right now.

[phillyP84]

@acejackalope Nice one, i'll see if i can find a 3 hour video with this sound in the backgrond, thank you for the fast and in depth response :)

[acejackalope]

@phillyP84 , three hours might be a really long stretch for them to sing, so you'll probably have to stitch together an audio recording that long. They usually begin at dusk and finish when it's actually dark. They start showing up in mid-June in the Midwest U.S. and die off in October. In your search terms you might want to include "pruinosa" as that name, with the feminine "a" ending, was the species name until a recent nomenclature change. "T." is often used instead of the full genus name.

[judgeman21]

sounds like he's rapping, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah hmmm....

[pdutube]

Awesome, I love their sounds! Looks like it's hanging out on a mesquite tree?

[hiveof5]

Cool video. My little boys saw one outside and I showed them this video so they could see them up close and hear them! Thanks!

[cicadafan]

im a cicadafan! :P

could you maybe tell me what species -except the 17 cicadas live in america??

[acejackalope]

I wish I knew. I haven't researched what species he is yet.

[hmf202]

Tibicen pruinosa, according to cicadamania dot com. This video and two of acejackalope's other cicada videos are on that site. Tibicens are annual cicadas that come out every summer.

[epb471]

@cicadafan Tibicen pruinosa

[hmf202]

Great view! Our cicadas always call from higher up in the trees, which is why most of my cicada videos look blurry :(.

[acejackalope]

Thanks...this guy was in a low sort of tree used for landscaping near a rest stop building on a high hill. In a mature neighborhhod I'd seldom see one this low.

[hmf202]

I had luck almost that good back in July when I got video of a cicada calling in a sapling. He was still quite a bit higher up than the one in your video, though. Keep up the good work ;).