The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) came second place in the 2024 count. Image credit: shutterstock The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) placed third. But Sean Dooley, senior public affairs ...

What you are looking at is a Cicada Killer Wasp (Sphecuis spp.). As their name suggests, they specialize in hunting cicadas (Tibicen spp.). Specifically, they specialize in the dog-day cicada ...

It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green pattern on the back of the thorax) are making themselves known.

Specific identification of three Tibicen cicadas, T. japonicus, T. flammatus and T. bihamatus, by their chirping sounds was carried out using Principal Components Analysis (PCA). High quality ...

Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro has received funding from Universities Australia through an Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme. Rachel Oh received funding from Universities Australia ...

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Additionally, Mississippi harbors around 20 species of annual cicadas, distinguishable by their winged form, greenish bodies, and prominent eyes, primarily belonging to the Tibicen genus, each ...

Trillions of evolution's bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and ...

Plusia gamma and Ochlodes), Hymenoptera (Xylocopa pubescens and Bombus rupestric), Hemiptera (Tibicen linnei) and Coleoptera (Allomyrina dichotoma). We found that wingbeat frequency does not have a ...

More information: Grace Blackburn et al, Cognition mediates response to anthropogenic noise in wild Western Australian magpies (Gmynorhina tibicen dorsalis), Global Change Biology (2023).