title: Periodical cicada: sound production and hearing.
abstract: The two main species intermingled in a brood of the 17-year cicada (Magicicada) have distinctive sound-making patterns and correspondingly different hearing abilities. Thus, they are acoustically isolated for mating purposes. Their simultaneous emergence and community "singing" has the important advantage of repelling predators.
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D013016:Sound; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D014828:Vocalization, Animal