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Cicadas, including the dog day cicada, are one of those bugs everyone has heard but few people have seen. Seeing one may go unconnected with the insect's name because there's no sound.

These true bugs make long buzzing sounds from atop tall shade trees, particularly during hot, dry summer days.

Different species call at different times of the day and for different durations.

Males, not females, call. The sound attracts both males and female to a location where the males continue to call and eventually females will mate with the males.

The females lay eggs, which hatch and drop from the tree...