cicada
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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
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
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
As my mother and I approached the summer heat bore down on us, and a cicada started up, like an aerial lawnmower, in the heart of a copper beech tree at the back.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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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
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
Wherever it appeared, moreover, the red-eyed cicadae were in abundance.
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
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
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
Local officials said 22,000 cicadas were captured this year, that residents reported less noise and that the situation appeared to stabilize.
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
Crickets sang in the grass at their feet; cicadas buzzed in the trees overhead.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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