One Friday, July 25, Dad walked out on the front porch at about 12 Noon and heard our neighborhood’s second species of Annual Cicada for 2008: Tibicen linnei. (Sorry, cicada species don’t have common names.) To hear what this species sounds like, go to this web page: http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Michigan/Index.html#Tibicen_linnei
We are still expecting to hear at least one more species in our neighborhood: Tibicen canicularis. Go to this page to hear its song: http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Michigan/Index.html#Tibicen_canicularis
Dad’s personal year list of cicadas includes one additional species, which he heard on July 22 while collecting data for an evaluation project at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. However, we have no idea what species it was.