Dog-day cicada (Neotibicen canicularis)

While canicularis is the insect most associated with the “dog-day” name, that common name is shared by several species. If the northern dog-day cicada doesn’t sound like what you learned as the dog day cicada, check out episode 15 on Neotibicen pruinosis; that’s the one I learned to call dog-day cicada in central Illinois.

Thank you to Wil Hershberger for letting us use the insect calls from SongsofInsects.com.

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• http://songsofinsects.com/cicadas/dog-day-cicada 
• https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/neotibicen-canicularis-harris-1841-aka-dog-day-cicada/ 
• https://bugguide.net/node/view/12461