Comments on: Mystery Cicada 2 is a Tibicen dorsatus

By: Greg Rummo

Greg Rummo — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:39:34 +0000

I travel frequently to Kansas City on business and I always stay at the Airport
Marriott. The hotel grounds are spacious, including a large “lake” and an outdoor
track that meanders through stands of oak trees if memory serves me correctly. This
August as in past years, the trees were filled with what must be these same, annual
cicadas. Their song is nothing like the annual cicadas here in New Jersey which
have a definite beginning and end to them; like an old car trying to start, getting louder
and louder and then finally giving up. These cicadas in southern Missouri keep
a lazy, steady buzz going with perhaps a long wavelength of variableness in the song.
And they all seem to “sing” at once. When you approach them on a tree, they get spooked.

By: Vince Matson

Vince Matson — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:09:18 +0000

this is a pretty bug!

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 05:50:13 +0000

I agree with number 1 and number 2 for what it is worth. This is known as the “Prairie Cicada”
Tibicen dorsatus. Here is a good reference link for you:

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/highlights/cicada.html

By: Val Ann C

Val Ann C — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:34:00 +0000

It’s really pretty!

By: David

David — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:38:08 +0000

Try Tibicen dorsatus for this one- good picture in “Cicadas of Colorado” by Boris Kondratieff.

By: david

david — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:46:19 +0000

This beauty is Tibicen dorsatus or T.dealbatus (was it from Colorado?)