cicada

“Because cicada surges are not well-studied in dense tropical urban settings, no single agency had an off-the-shelf solution,” said Choo, a member of the People’s Action Party that has governed Singapore since 1959.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

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

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

Then there was the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a winner for “Appropriate,” rocking a cicada brooch tie, a nod to one of the production’s creepy-crawly motifs.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

The harsh cicada seemed to take up its melody, and the twittering tree frogs called little phrases of it.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

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

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 John Lort Stokes

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

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

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

There was the chirping of cicadas and the crunch of desiccated pine needles underfoot, but the most remarkable thing about the place was the quiet.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Scientists determined they were orange-winged cicadas that had previously been found in the Philippines.

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

“I can’t tell you how happy I was that night,” he tells me, his voice even smaller now, hard to hear over all the cicadas and the river and the breeze rustling through the trees.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender