cicada

I was about eleven years old then, and I was very friendly with the goats, and I was as shrill as a cicada and as slender as a match.

"All day long, like a Greek chorus, these other sounds come to us against the background of cicadas. The big robust insects emerge from the earth where they have spent from four to 17 years as burrowing, root-feeding nymphs, finally crawling up some rough-barked tree to split their skins and come forth to dry their wings.

"Cicadas" is another story that sings with subtle metaphor.

It is the quintessential sound of the Mediterranean in summer, but for some French tourists the cicadas of Provence are just too noisy.

As dusk turns to darkness, the cicadas become quiet.

Others are also looking at the insect kingdom but with a very different approach: taking cicadas as their research subjects, Australian scientists have discovered that the wings of these noisy critters are highly resistant to bacteria not because of some chemical they excrete but because of their very design.

The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) are insects usually bodily medium to large-sized insects and are very common in the tropics and subtropics.

Cicadas are hemimetabolous insects in which female lays eggs on aerial part of plants.

The birth and death of Periodical Cicadas is by far the best and rarest natural phenomenon that occurs on our planet earth.

Now, de Pio expands his series into a wider scope of Japanese icons: cranes, crows, cicadas, samurai helmets.

After hanging around underground for 17 years, billions of flying bugs known as cicadas are due to sweep over the East Coast starting sometime in mid-April through the end of May.