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Mud tubes built by cicadas, Manu National Park, Peru. For up to 17 years, Cicadas live as nymphs underground, sucking the sap from the roots of plants. They then emerge all at the same time out of mud tubes for a deafening mating frenzy.

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Mud tubes built by cicadas, Manu National Park, Peru. For up to 17 years, Cicadas live as nymphs underground, sucking the sap from the roots of plants. They then emerge all at the same time out of mud tubes for a deafening mating frenzy.