This cicada (Dundubia rufivena?) flew in for a photo session today. Angel kept trying to paw the bug, and it somehow landed in the fish tank. They are more often heard than seen, their piercing chirps an inseparable and sometimes deafening feature of tropical greenlands.
Unlike grasshoppers which sing with their legs, cicadas vibrate membranes within their body. And like many of their fellow Hemipterans (e.g. aphids, leafhoppers), cicadas are sapsuckers, and some writers claim they (the bugs not the writers) consume so much sap that it flows right through their bodies and out of their backend onto hapless monkeys passer-bys below like showers of entomological blessings. Now, you won't catch my duck getting dirtied that way!
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