Larvae have different names in different places, such as cicada monkey, whistle dog, whistle monkey (Jinan), pointed thousand monkey (Boxing dialect), reptile monkey, reptile monkey (Shangqiu dialect), old crying monkey, scorpion pupa (Handan dialect), grasshopper, horse crying monkey (Pingxiang dialect), turtle dragging and old crying monkey (Tuo).
Sister Monkey, Xielaogui, Luo Guo, Climbing Black Cicada, Anemarrhena Duck, Eating Baby, Old and Young Dogs, Gila Monkey (Feng Dialect), Cicada Monkey, Little Rhino, Laodaoer (Binzhou), Climbing Fork (Puyang Dialect, Henan Province), Beef Cattle, Fairy, Dura Monkey, Knowing the Old Climbing Monkey and so on.
In recent years, the phenomenon of catching golden cicadas in restaurants in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and Anhui is very serious. Because the golden cicada larvae live underground for about 5- 12 years before they can break out of the ground, the number of golden cicadas has dropped sharply because of such crazy capture. In some areas, the voice of the golden cicada can no longer be heard in summer, and the golden cicada is facing a crisis of survival and may even become extinct!