How To Use Cicada In A Sentence

I'm now under a dense canopy of bush and the air is suddenly electric with the pulsing of cicadas.
Their wings make a whine much like the sound of a cicada.
If cicadas come out when few predators are around, they flourish.
Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.
A faint warm breeze stirred the hairs on his arm as the navy blue sky turned to black as the cicadas cheeped like mobile ringtones. Cheeseburger Gothic » Small Pepsi challenge.

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Then I stopped the mower, and the cicadas droned on, on, on.
The periodical cicada has protruding red eyes and orange legs; adults have clear wings with orange veins.
They were all back there — Liat and Maati and Kirath and Tuui and Epani who everyone called the cicada behind his back. A Shadow in Summer
Crickets chirped, owls hooted, and cicadas caterwauled in screechy harmony.
He says female cicadas use a sword-like organ, called an ovipositor, to slice into small tree branches and insert their eggs. Cicadas Swarm Wide Portions of US
Beyond the sound of their chit-chat you sense the sonorous vibe of the African bush - from the hum of mosquito through the drum of cicada to the snorts of the hippos - closing in.
Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain.
During a mass emergence of periodical cicadas, almost any animal, from raccoons to raptors, will prey on them.
The cicadas make themselves known on these hot days, as well, and they're quite loud from the casuarina trees immediately behind the sand.
There were cicadas in the mimosa and gulls crying on the wing.
Whether it's a power lunch or a romantic dinner, a meal at Cicada always feels like a special occasion.
Solitary species such as cicada killers, carpenter bees, digger wasps and mud daubers use their stingers to subdue the insects and spiders upon which they prey.
There was a pause during which I seemed to hear the regular gentle swish of the punkah and the steady buzzing of the cicadas in the sandalwood trees.
Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.
A cicada is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Realistic Cicada Husk Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
He goes for walk one day and witnesses a fight between a cicada and a much smaller praying mantis.
The periodical cicada has protruding red eyes and orange legs; adults have clear wings with orange veins.
The buzz of cicadas outdoes the voices of subdued vendors on a hot August day at Sensoji Temple, one of Tokyo's top tourist attractions. Disasters, Strong Yen Dissuade Tourists from Visiting Japan
Some of animals slough, such as snake, cicada, and so on.
She folds her arms across her chest, letting the crickets and cicadas hidden in the garden fill up the silence.
My brain froze, the shrill of cicada faded, and my senses vanished. Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography
Frogs croaked in the ditches; cicadas shrilled in the fields.
In the gathering heat of the afternoon the chirrup of the cicadas filled the garden. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Unless you are a cicada or a mosquito, Washington DC is not considered the destination of choice at this time of year.
He called a cicada to his finger and said, Welcome, Sister Cicada. House Of The Scorpion
Today, over a breakfast of orange juice and cereal, the two of them sit on Michael's back patio in the summer and listen to the cicadas sing.
The jungle surrounds us on every side: a wall of green which hums with the buzz of cicadas and a million other unseen insects.
The air seemed to beat against my ear drums, vibrating with the piercing rattle of insects… cicada's, grasshoppers and huge black beetles.
One, listen to the cicadas, two, sip pastis, three, watch boules, four, make love to you! THE IMAGE OF LAURA
However, cicadas produce their sounds - the loudest of any insects’ - not by stridulation but by vibrating membranes, or tymbals, located on their abdomens.
On land, an unseen cicada had begun its shrill noise.
They also occasionally eat insects, especially grasshoppers, cicadas and crickets.
They'll be squawking from the lindens, elms, and maples where cicadas sang during summer days.
Leaving Anaxis to smell about, I went walking on the thymy hillsides or through the olive groves, hearing for chorus the cicadas and mountain birds, while I ran over this speech or that. The Mask of Apollo
Pear Pest's Chemical "Come Hither" Identified web July 2, 2010 Pear psylla is a cicada-like pest with a vexing tendency to develop resistance to insecticides. WN.com - Articles related to Kill weeds with help from the sun
The humid air was thick with the squawks and cries of birds, the distant roar of howler monkeys, the electric buzzing of cicadas, and mysterious rustlings in the dense undergrowth.
Even though the heat is generated by the flight musculature, the platypleurine cicadas are able to elevate body temperature without flight.
A fellow hemipteran insect, the Fiery Beaked Lantern Bug, like the cicada was resting on another tree trunk. Undefined
The hill feels peaceful in spite of tourists: it's surrounded by fragrant pine trees and deafeningly noisy with cicadas.
cicadas, like other bugs, are insects
Mr. Walsh sent Mr. Darwin an extract from Dr. Hartman's "Journal of the doings of a Cicada septendecim," in which the females are described as flocking round the drumming males. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
The sounds of crickets and cicadas filled the air in the campground.
My inclination was for the Tropics, but on a freezing, frosty day, the thought of Mediterranean summers, cicadas, grapes, resinated wines and long slow afternoons spent in the shade took precedence and I enjoyed a couple of hours on Corfu.
SNAIL'S TALES: Parade of cicada exuviae skip to main Parade of cicada exuviae
[1679] Fialon, quoting the well known ode of Anakreon, "makarizomen se tettix," and Plato's theory of the affection of grasshoppers and the muses in the Phaedrus, contrasts the "cantu querulae rumpent arbusta cicadae" of Vergil (George.iii. 328) and points out that the Romans did not share the Greek admiration for the grasshopper's song. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
A few days later the egg hatches and the wasp larva eats the cicada alive.
The air is full of the rattle of the cicada, which is like the sound of a loud cricket, or the 'r-- r' of a corncraik's note going on for ever and ever; and the house lizard in the church goes cheep -- cheep -- cheep every now and then. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
Hazmat Modine pulls it off gorgeously, deserving of whatever buzz Cicada receives. Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Buzzing Cicadas and Jewish Gangsters
Esther works on maintaining her attention only in the present; there is always the now—an endlessly adjusting smell of the wind, the shining of the stars, the deep five-call chirrup chirrup of the cicadas in the park. Memory Wall
They also occasionally eat insects, especially grasshoppers, cicadas and crickets.
But the girl had slipped into the woods, into the midst of a chorus of singing tree frogs and cicadas.
And the quiet allows her to feel what she calls “the evidence of things unseen,” the way her front-porch swing moves rhythmically on breezeless days, the scent of cooking when there are no pots on the stove, the whispers that seem to hum just beneath the cicadas at night. One Big Table
The dog-day cicada is dark with green markings.
During a mass emergence of periodical cicadas, almost any animal, from raccoons to raptors, will prey on them.
The hair at the back of her head rose to its ends as she heard the noises of the cicadas, hoots of owls and soft hissing as she ambled along.
But even over the noise, I could hear the monotonous drone of a cicada.
Among the 440 cable radio stations available to condo owners in one section of Osaka are those broadcasting traditional street vendor cries, buzzing cicadas and Buddhist sutras.
Ken Parsons and Derek Bridges sent me a video clip and neither knows the source of the odd "cicada" sound. Earthfiles.com Articles
The smell of sausages sizzling, the taste of a chargrilled steak washed down with a cold beer, the sound of mozzies buzzing and cicadas singing.
Cicadas, orthopterans (crickets, katydids, and grasshoppers), and anurans (frogs and toads) are among the animals that Darwin described as having ‘musical powers.’
A Spanish lexicographer of authority says that the cigar has the form of a "cicada" of paper, and, on the whole, it is highly probable that the likeness of the roll of tobacco-leaf to the cylindrical body of the insect (_cigarra_) was the reason that the "cigarro" was so called. The Social History of Smoking
Huge numbers of the fierce some looking insects are buzzing around the headquarters here in D.C. Experts say this particular breed is called the cicada killer wasp. CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007
USA Today" has a story about something experts are calling cicada envy. CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2004
At Cicada, the lucky couple enters into a cavernous love chamber.
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In the gathering heat of the afternoon the chirrup of the cicadas filled the garden. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
It's getting darker earlier, the cicadas are singing, and here we are into September.
The air seemed to beat against my ear drums, vibrating with the piercing rattle of insects - cicadas, grasshoppers and huge black beetles.
By noon it seemed that every branch among the junipers and piñon pines surrounding my home was occupied by an adult cicada.
A howler monkey screamed in the tree tops and frogs and cicadas and other creatures he could not name whistled and chirped in the dark.
Statistical analysis of the relationship between body temperature and ambient temperature confirmed that the cicadas are thermoregulating endothermically.
How many times have truffle parasites evolved from cicada parasites in Cordyceps?
A mourning dove cooed in the distance, accompanied by the never-ending drone of dragonflies and cicadas in the creek bed hidden behind the tall grass of the field.
Subtle enough to catch and lend fluency to the songs of crickets, frogs, cicadas and bellbirds, sometimes disappearing like an invisible songbird behind a static screen of notes.
The sound of a Bakelite door handle wobbling against wood penetrated the refereeing of the cicadas. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Cicadas start to shrill, building to a crescendo that threatens to rupture eardrums.
The catch, as I recall, was mostly insects: dragonflies, big fat cicadas, the gaudy but klutzy grasshoppers called lubbers, or Georgia thumpers. The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
When the cicada attacked, the mantis angled to the side and then pinned the cicada with its powerful forearms.
There's also a new happy hour at Cicada, albeit a very sophisticated one.
I sit, and stare, chin propped on my hand, and let the sound of cicadas wash over me. A Loss For Words
Cicada always sloughs in the spring.
Groups of male capuchin birds attract females with sounds like the whine of some outer-space cicada insect crossed with a sick cow: ‘mmmmmmmm-WOW!’
The lake behind the house was filled with tree frogs and bullfrogs and cicadas and crickets.
A cicada sloughs off its old skin every spring.
Pear psylla is a cicada-like pest with a vexing tendency to develop resistance to insecticides. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
They are nothing like the cicadas, which pop up every 17 years and make one heck of a racket, then disappear quietly.
To the sound of waves lapping on the shore and the relentless chirruping of cicadas, the world-famous El Bulli restaurant of Spanish chef Ferran Adrià closed its doors. How a wartime romance gave birth to the best restaurant in the world
Diaphanously winged and provided with limbs far too long and interestingly jointed to be in any way aerodynamic, it would appear to be some kind of mutant grasshopper, a cicada maybe?
I saw these exuviae* of cicadas last nite underneath one of the branches of a large pine tree I have in my backyard. Parade of cicada exuviae
Being aesthetic target, cicada has extremely rich aesthetics implication.
It is a jungle resort where the hill villas are surrounded by lush greenery containing the sounds of screeching monkeys and chattering cicadas.
In the gathering heat of the afternoon the chirrup of the cicadas filled the garden. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
But the naturalist, and especially the arboriculturist and fruit-grower, know to their cost of other tricks of the cicada, or rather of Mrs. Cicada, immortalized by My Studio Neighbors
Frogs croaked in the ditches; cicadas shrilled in the fields.
The hum of the cicadas was softening to a barely audible moan.
A lone cicada will sound as loud and true as any brass band practising in an empty concert hall.
The clockwork appearance of periodical cicadas in late May to mid-June has long fascinated, and perplexed, entomologists.
Unseen insects chirped and swarmed through the sunwarmed grasses and undergrowth, the razzing of cicadas a continuous chorus in the summer air.
The peloton entered Jean de Florette country to the highpitched chattering of cicadas, with the domestiques making constant visits to their team cars to refill their riders ' bidons.
Cicadas buzzed in the heat of the day.
For the next 45 minutes, the girls and I footle about in the kiddie park, playing tag, and hide-and-seek, and find-the-cicada.
Oh and there's also a chirrup like a clockwork cicada in there.
Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.
According to the Jackson Sun, the red-eyed cicadas can even be eaten, and in some countries "are considered delicacies because of the high amount of protein they provide. Cicadas In U.S. South Emerge After 13 Years Underground (VIDEO)
A cicada is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Realistic Cicada Husk Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
The latter that does instruction maybe parasitize in my body, it will leave me when time is due, just like the shell of cicada and the skin of snake.
The lake was a peaceful sight, with a few reeds along the edge, and the soft hum of cicadas around it.
They also occasionally eat insects, especially grasshoppers, cicadas and crickets.
The air is full of the rattle of the cicada, which is like the sound of a loud cricket, or the 'r-- r' of a corncraik's note going on for ever and ever; and the house lizard in the church goes cheep -- cheep -- cheep every now and then. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
Crickets chirped, owls hooted, and cicadas caterwauled in screechy harmony.
We walk farther into it, into this cradle of life so far away from everything, and I know—because I can hear it somehow—that both of us are thinking how nice it would be build a little house here, among the quiet, among the crescendoing rattle of cicadas, the warble of wild turkeys. Taxonomies
I woke early next morning, roused by the creaking of the cicadas and the scent of orange blossom.
In a related study Clay and his colleagues will examine how the cicadas influence the ecological relationship between insect-eating birds and caterpillars.
The crickets and cicadas were already revved up outside, making their chirps and clicks that used to drive me nuts back home.
In the gathering heat of the afternoon the chirrup of the cicadas filled the garden. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Noises such as the drone of cicadas, the crackling of branches, flies buzzing, and the calls of birds had drowned out in her thoughts.
And of insects some are derived from insect congeners, as the venom-spider and the common-spider from the venom-spider and the common-spider, and so with the attelabus or locust, the acris or grasshopper, and the tettix or cicada. The History of Animals
At night other sounds are heard, less agreeable to the ear: the shrill "chirrup" of cicadas and tree-toads ringing so incessantly, that only when they cease do you become conscious of their existence; the dull "gluck-gluck" of the great bullfrog; the sharp cries of the heron and _qua-bird_; and the sepulchral screech of the great horned owl. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
Every sound of life in the Everglades comes to life, with cicadas whining, birds chirping, gators growling - this is one of the most immersive audio environments I've heard on such a low-rent flick.
A crescent moon had just risen though it was not yet dark, and the cicadas were singing.
As for the cricket, called in Latin cicada, he hath some likelihood, but not very great, with the grasshopper, and therefore he is not to be brought in as an umpire in this case. Of Savage Beasts and Vermin. Chapter XIV. [1577, Book III., Chapters 7 and 12; 1587, Book III., Chapters 4 and 6
Maybe it's the seductive chirruping of cicadas in the cypress trees.
The cicadas make themselves known on these hot days and they're quite loud from the casuarina trees immediately behind the sand.
The cicadas droned all the way home, joined by grasshoppers who sounded like gadgets of gears and springs.
The tettix or cicada, alone of such creatures (and, in fact, alone of all creatures), is unprovided with a mouth, but it is provided with the tongue-like formation found in insects furnished with frontward stings; and this formation in the cicada is long, continuous, and devoid of any split; and by the aid of this the creature feeds on dew, and on dew only, and in its stomach no excretion is ever found. The History of Animals
A cicada sloughs off its old skin every spring.
You sing season with singing, accompany arboreous thrive, accompany wind spread cool and refreshing, you are so free thoroughly delighted, but you think for me, make a noise dead I, cicada cries.
The cicadas have fallen silent by the time the bearer serves you tea; because it isn't yet dawn, the birds are still nesting.
That night we slid into Tomb Bay, where Lycian rock tombs glare over a sheltered bight and cicadas yell from oleanders.
There was a pause during which I seemed to hear the regular gentle swish of the punkah and the steady buzzing of the cicadas in the sandalwood trees.
The varieties are known, respectively, as 13-year cicadas and 17 year cicadas.

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