Lyric Cicada

Also known as Lyric Dog-day Cicada, Lyric Harvestfly

Lyric cicadas fill deciduous canopies across eastern North America with a steady, pulsating buzz throughout mid-to-late summer afternoons. Emerging nymphs crawl up tree trunks at dusk to shed their papery brown exoskeletons, revealing large green-and-black bodies marked with distinctive reddish-brown or yellowish collars. Adults spend their brief aerial lives feeding on branch xylem sap and evading specialized aerial hunters like cicada killer wasps.