This one's called a Black Prince
G'day, I'm Jacob from Make Science Fun. Thanks for joining me. Now it's summer in Australia
It's not raining, and I'm not using the umbrella to keep the Sun of my face.
I'm actually using it, so I don't get drenched in cicada pee.
Australia's got this infestation
of
Cicadas at the moment.Can you hear them, they're driving me crazy! Check out this footage using the drone
This one's called a Brown Baker oh
What a noise it makes
look theres the vibration right there
Man they can make a lot of noise listen to that
I've just found a cicada that's obviously just climbed out of its shell.
Notice how its wing's a bit bent
So it's gonna unfold its wing, and then it will probably fly off
Don't know how long that will take but if they don't do it quickly this is what happens, come with me.
Heres one that didn't hatch quick enough and the ants got him
So, this is a black prince notice its body is black and its eyes are like bright red look at that
It's an insect. It's got six legs
it's got a head a
thorax and an abdomen
This one
Doesn't make any noise must be the female, back there that there is the proboscis that it digs into the tree with
And it makes all these
thousands of little pinprick holes
I'll let him go
The Cicada's lay eggs and then when the mutes hatch they actually climb down the tree they bury themselves in the roots
And they take a few years to develop and then they climb up out
and they look like these, right and this is what
metamorphosis and the Cicada actually climbs out of
the
shell and flies away
There's lots and lots of these empty
Cicada shells
They're everywhere . Look at this, It's just a shell, just hollow
You can even see his little eyes look at that
I love where I live, but i have to put up with this racket every couple of years or so,
It doesn't last that long, i think the Cicada's only live for three weeks or so
before they die again.
And then we have peace and quiet for another seven years or so
All right, thanks for joining me today bye for now!