cicada

Look, for instance, for a conductor with a clock as a face, dancing luggage and a cicada jug band, among a host of other oddities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

In Costa Rica, a rufous-vented ground cuckoo snatches a cicada fleeing an army ant swarm.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

The bloody stain of the cicada on the artwork proves to be excellent foreshadowing of where the film is headed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

“Most trees and shrubs will bounce back from cicada damage just fine,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

I walk out around back, a wall of heat and cicada noise hitting me, and sit down beside him, grass crunchy and wet beneath my hands and soaking right into my jeans.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

When we stop, which we do often, for emigrants and freight travel together, the kine first, the man after, the whole plain is heard singing with cicadae.

From The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls by Stevenson, Robert Louis

It was in the month of August; and the whole countryside was ringing with the song of the cicadae.

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard

Suddenly the jungle was stilled, even from the voice of the rasping cicadae; the leaves had ceased to whisper, for the wind had hushed.

From Caste by Fraser, William Alexander

Wherever it appeared, moreover, the red-eyed cicadae were in abundance.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea by Stokes, John Lort

Yet perhaps with sunflowers and cicadae, summer and winter, cattle, wife and family, the settler may create a full and various existence.

From Across the Plains by Stevenson, Robert Louis

"We are now able to look forward to a time when we can once again walk through the New Forest in summer and hear hundreds of cicadas singing their hearts out."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Some individuals compare the noise to cicadas or even a passing freight train, Price said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

Outdoors, the yard is alive with 17-year cicadas who are generating an increasingly eerie background hum while cheerful daytime television hosts lightly suggest ways to turn the situation into a positive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

She has made her own pact with the insects, asking them to restore the life of her stillborn baby, whose corpse she has held onto in the hope that the cicadas will answer her prayer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

Often the only companions along the path would be the lizards scurrying off in the dust or the cicadas screeching in the bush.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith