The tymbal looks and acts a lot like the bendy part of a bendy straw. When they want to call out for a mate, male cicadas move this part of their body back and forth ...

Yanoviak: "The sound is made by a special apparatus called a tymbal inside the the abdomen of the insect. And so it's almost like a little accordion piece that vibrates.

Electrodes were inserted into each cicada's abdomen through the back to stimulate the tymbal muscles, which are responsible for producing chirps by vibrating tymbal plates within the abdominal cavity.

Male cicadas attract females with sounds produced by a specialized organ in the abdomen called a tymbal, like a tiny vibrating drum. Every species of cicada has a slightly different song ...

Cicadas, those large and loud-buzzing harbingers of summer, are piercing the silence in parks and back yards across the Tucson area this month. The big bugs, which are typically out and buzzing ...

The frequency of the contractions of the tymbal muscle range from 120 to 480 times a second, which is fast enough to make it sound continuous to the human ear.

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