Swamp cicada sings in a meadow in Pickaway County, Ohio USA. August 23, 2009

The swamp cicada, Tibicen chloromera sings from low vegetation in swamps or dry upland meadows. (Most eastern cicadas sing from high on trees and are thus difficult to see.) It has a dark body, and bright green head patches. This site is at Stage's Pomd State Nature Preserve, a dry upland meadow adjacent to a freshwater rose-mallow and reed canary grass marsh.

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• swamp cicada
• cicada
• Tibicen chloromera

[BULLETS4DAYZ]

these things go nuts in summit county ohio in august

[sunshine19967]

i hear the same thing in texas

[YupTanya]

Rena is comming for us

[wonderwallmusic]

@Arbitar11 Very interesting. Thanks for the info!

[epb471]

I have observed the Swamp cicada (Tibicen chloromera) many times - this is an ultra-excited specimen! Did you use simulated wing flick behavior to ilicit this response? Great video!!

[VOICESOF1]

BTW- What recording device did you use here? Its very good.

[acejackalope]

That's a great video. Thanks for posting. I wish we had chloromera around here (central KS). I guess it's properly called Tibicen tibicen now, but I still call it T. chloromera.

[VOICESOF1]

Cicada's use a Tympanum, or tympanal organ, a hearing organ in insects. It's wicked sensitive!

[wonderwallmusic]

@Arbitar11 Yeah I've heard that before... do you know how it works? Like how the cicadas hear the wing clicks?

[wonderwallmusic]

lol he is really excited with those wings