Late yesterday morning, Monday, July 28, we finally heard the third species of Annual Cicada singing 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
Three species of Annual Cicada is what we usually hear in a summer. Now we’ll keep listening, though, and see if we can hear a fourth species, or even more. There are at least a couple more possibilities, as shown on this page: http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Michigan/Index.html (Chicago, where we live, seems very close to Michigan in cicada terms, although I wonder if we may have some additional prairie species as possibilities.)
We’ll report any results on this blog.