cicada

“When the cicada surges escalate to a point where it starts to significantly disrupt home life across a neighborhood, we had to act decisively,” said Choo, who represents the hardest-hit area in Singapore’s parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The New Forest cicada, Cicadetta montana, was once found across the national park - but the last confirmed sightings were in the 1990s.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

His organic forms, including a glowing cicada and whale lamp, fall between $2,000 and $4,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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

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 William Alexander Fraser

How delightful is the breeze:—so very sweet; and there is a sound in the air shrill and summerlike which makes answer to the chorus of the cicadae.

From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett

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 Robert Louis Stevenson

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 Robert Louis Stevenson

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 Bernard Miall

Over three nights, Foo said he caught 1,733 cicadas using the light traps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

In government-subsidized apartment buildings, where most Singaporeans live, some ceiling lights were masked to see if cicadas would be less attracted to them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

"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

Tlo Pepe’s voice was only a whisper above the trilling of the cicadas.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez