★A Place of Serenity★: True Bugs and Cicadas

Scientific Classification:
- Order: Hemiptera

Lantern Fly

Physical Appearance:

- It's a bug not a fly

- Moderate to large size

- Does not emit light despite their name 'Lantern'

- Has an elongated snout which is used for sucking saps

- Has three pairs of legs

- Four wings: two forewings and two hindwings

- Life cycle: egg - nymph - adult

- Incomplete metamorphosis

Food Source:

- Nymph and adult: Feeds on lychees and longans tree sap

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Stink Bugs

Physical Appearance:

- Two pair of wings: either entirely membranous or in the form of hemelytra where the forewings are hard and the hindwings are membranous

- The entirely membranous hindwings are usually shorter than the forewings. The wings are held either upwards covering the body or flat on its back

- Three pairs of segmented legs, a pair of usually five-segmented antennae, a beaklike mouthpart which is for piercing plant tissue and sucking out saps or liquids, a relatively small head

- Life cycle: egg - nymph - adult

- Incomplete metamorphosis

Food Source:

- Nymph and adult: feed on plant sap

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Cicada

Physical Appearance:
- A pair of large eyes located at the side of its head, three small eyes on top of its head, a pair of short antennae, membranous front wings, three pairs of legs, a mouth for sucking sap from trees and plants

- Three segments on its body: head, thorax, abdomen

- Only males produce distinctive sound

- Mating songs emitted by cicadas vary according to species

- Live in temperate to tropical climates

- Newborn nymphs burrow and live in the ground for a few years depending on the species

- In the final growing phase, they emerge and shed their skins

- Life cycle: egg - nymph - adult

- Incomplete metamorphosis

Food Source:

- Nymph: feed on root juice

- Adult: feed on tree and plant sap