Cicada chrysalis, commonly known as crawling zapper monkey, is a common insect in the north-east, north China and other northern regions, is the larva of cicadas.

The appearance of black and dark yellow color, cone-shaped, length of about 4cm.

The cicada's nymph spends the first two or three years of its life underground, perhaps longer. During this time, it sucks fluids from the roots of trees. Then one day it breaks out of the ground and finds a tree to climb on its survival instincts. After several years of slow growth, the cicada nymph climbs out of the ground as a store of energy. The front claws it uses to dig holes can also be used to climb.

The larval stage of the cicada is called the cicada monkey, robin monkey, old goo nymph, old goo leng, creeping fork, creeping fork monkey, small vegetable cow, small vegetable turtle, small vegetable monkey, old age high, robin's turtle, or cicada turtle. The largest cicada body cicada is 4 to 4.8 centimeters long, with black-brown wing bases. In summer, it screams loudly in the trees and sucks sap with its needle-prick mouthparts, and its larvae inhabit the soil and suck sap from the roots, which is harmful to the trees. The shells that cicadas shed can be used as medicine.

Because it is the product of cicadas' "cocooning", fresh cicada pupae are alive... It can move. And because of its appearance is relatively alternative, many people are afraid to eat, but its nutritional value is very high.