Edge of 17. The female cicada lays her eggs in the stems or twigs of trees, by means of an ovipositor, a sharp organ that can slice a hole in which the female can lay her eggs.

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its fossilized ...

Sounds from the Eocene: the first singing cicada from the Messel Pit, Germany. Scientific Reports. Published online on April 29, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-94099-7 ...

It sounds like a scene right out of an old horror movie. ... They carry the paralyzed cicadas to their underground burrows where the female cicada killer will lay her eggs on it.

This fossil of an adult female cicada is remarkably well preserved. It was found in the Messel Pit in Germany, in rocks that are approximately 47 million years old.

And according to Kirstky, blue-eyed cicadas are "relatively rare." "I estimate that they occur at a 1-in-a-million, but when you have billions of cicadas, that means there will be millions over ...

This fossil of an adult female cicada is remarkably well preserved. It was found in the Messel Pit in Germany, in rocks that are approximately 47 million years old.