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"cicada" Definitions
  1. a large insect with transparent wings, common in hot countries. The male makes a continuous high sound after dark by making two membranes (= pieces of thin skin) on its body vibrate (= move very fast).

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Around the city, you're most likely hearing species including the dog-day cicada, the swamp or morning cicada in the early hours, and the Linne's cicada before dusk, said Dan Mozgai, a cicada expert.
The cicada, now completely immobilized and buried alive, remains fresh food for the developing cicada killer larva for as long as it lives.
Sometimes I was beside a tree containing a single cicada, and at other times every cicada on the High Line melted into a background chorus.
People exclaimed, and the cameras made their insistent cicada noises.
And here, Attenborough seduces a cicada with jazzy finger snaps.
Periodical cicada populations — called broods — are identified by Roman numerals.
Untypical Girls will be released this December on Cicada Books.
So, we're actually finding changes in cicada size with urban warming.
She signs it while telling him about the cicada life cycle.
My favorite is the cast-off skin from a molting cicada.
But, the obsidian and cicada pendant I deliberately keep with me.
The nature of his wound was the clock-cicada winding down.
The cicada buzzes on, seemingly unaware it's a mushroom's moving minion.
That's what the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's tiny CICADA drone can do.
"It's about being a cicada emerging from seventeen years underground," he explained.
At dusk, the cicada buzz sounded like electricity pulsing through the palms.
In snapping his fingers, Attenborough draws the cicada toward him, closer and closer.
The sale's top lot, Jasper Johns's "Cicada (Ulae 215)" (6253), sold for $1,215,000.
Some have compared the taste of a cicada to popcorn, bacon, even crab.
The Golden Cicada Tavern, which is between Jersey City's downtown and waterfront districts.
Here, esteemed nature documentarian Sir David Attenborough demonstrates by seducing a cicada himself.
But, as I learned, cicada calls aren't just clamorous—they can actually be deafening.
N.Y.C. Nature There is an eerie single-mindedness in the way cicada killers fly.
To find a cicada killer look for sandy soils near woodlands that host cicadas.
That same year, Zhu returned to China to reunite with his Cicada-turned-Muisical.
I thought about the time my brother ate a live cicada on a dare.
"The noise is awful," Attenborough says as the cicada hums sweet nothings into his ear.
The movie A Star Is Born is like the Hollywood equivalent of a cicada swarm.
Perhaps an easier way to identify this cicada is to simply kick back and listen.
As ruthless as cicada killers are with cicadas, they are quite mild mannered around humans.
And then the cicada jumps towards Attenborough, to continue the courtship in a more intimate matter.
Indeed, an adult cicada lives just a few weeks once it emerges from its multiyear nymphancy.
Here you can watch Attenborough seduce a male cicada by imitating the clicks a female makes. Enjoy!
Cicada nymphs spend 17 years underground, where they "await an undetermined signal for emergence," Mr. Hoover said.
Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release.
The periodical cicada is native to North America and exists nowhere else in the world, Mr. Hoover said.
The wincing men were awarded two Golden Cicada necklaces of red and black painted brass by Mr. Tan.
Paras is at least an attempt at an invention: What happens when you merge a cicada with mushrooms?
Heat rises in the cicada-riven night and darkness falls as patchwork lights plink on across the Ohio Valley.
Cleveland Metroparks posted a picture on Instagram earlier this month of a young cicada waiting to make its debut.
But how does the fungus get the cicada to ignore the damage to its body and carry on mating?
Sandra Bigtree ate a cicada the last time they had emerged, and she did not particularly care for it.
Lang uses a combination of these two metrics as he fashions and refashions a cicada, a classic origami shape.
The term "annual cicada" is something of a misnomer, as nymphs may spend two to five years underground before emerging.
The wasp then deposits the cicada into one of the chambers and lays a single egg directly on its victim.
In the excellent "Cicada," Ellery wins a piano competition over richer white girls who assume she doesn't have the chops.
The team behind Cicada turned Zhu's idea into an app in only 30 days, and in July 2014, launched Musical.
When the first responders ran in to drag him away from the blaze, his skin sloughed off, like a cicada molting.
Alf Jacques, 69, has had at least one every cicada season, though he suggests eating more than one at a time.
Tithonus ages endlessly; in some versions of the story, he shrivels and becomes the cicada, whose chorus is heard in midsummer.
A gray-suited cicada is an office drone, insulted and underpaid by the humans; he lives in an office wall space.
Anyone who's ever experienced a cicada season knows that "loud" is an understatement when it comes to describing the sounds they emit.
A friend gave me the pendant after traveling across Asia, and the cicada is meant to represent longevity and protection against backstabbers.
The next major cicada waves to watch out for in the area will occur in 2021, 2025 and 2030, Mr. Sorkin said.
But for some other animals, such as birds and fish, the emergence of the periodical cicada means a bumper crop of food.
In other words, Teddy and his moose seem to have entered a long period of dormancy, like a 22006-year presidential cicada.
Throughout 2013, Zhu and Luyu Yang — cofounders and longtime friends —spent six months building the educational app, called Cicada, and raised $250,000.
A cicada is capable of causing such a racket due to vibrations of its "tymbals," or sound production organ composed of corrugated exoskeleton.
Cicada killers bear the black and yellow markings of yellow jackets and bumble bees, writ large, onto two or more inches of insect.
Donald Glover only tweets like once in 215 years like a goddamn cicada, but every time it happens, it's just so good 😂 pic.twitter.
"They have visitors that are coming from China and Japan and European countries and want to come and experience the cicada emergence," Shetlar said.
I sing in a grind band called Cicada and a lot of our next tape is about the intersection of sexual violence and surgery.
This final round of testing concludes the basic research phase of the project, and set up CICADA for custom-tailored industrial or research applications.
They bring gifts, the silver and gold fish that are the game's money, along with more mundane trophies like cicada shells and rolling pins.
Cicada males produce their calls by rapidly contracting and releasing membranes found in tymbals, special structures located behind and below the males' rear wings.
After Team Flash banded together to defeat Cicada last week, this season finale has Barry facing his archnemesis, Reverse Flash, in an epic showdown.
As the cicada matures, massospora multiplies, digesting the insect's insides, castrating it and replacing its rear end with a chalky white plug of spores.
Cicada killers emerge and mate in summer, and then the females begin to excavate nest sites in loose, sandy soils near concentrations of cicadas.
The Cicada, around since the 1980s, has managed to stay in business throughout downtown's development renaissance, which seems to have reached a new level.
The CICADA project has been in the works for a while, since development began in 2006 and it got its first flight test in 2011.
Aunt Kris and Uncle Robert hosted a really nice lunch for Kim with all of her friends and family at a popular Italian restaurant called Cicada.
The head and limbs of a hairy monkey are made from the body parts of the cicada, while its body comes from the magnolia flower bud.
One possible explanation is that the fungus and cicada, maybe including the microbes living in its gut, co-evolved a unique interaction to produce these substances.
After hearing just a minute of the EP it probably won't surprise the listener to learn that the artist also plays in a grindcore band called Cicada.
There was good news for cicada romance, in that love did win out, and they went back to their courting song about 20 minutes after the eclipse.
Identifying dog-day cicadas can be challenging, but Linne's annual cicada is a good species to start with, as it is fairly common in New York City.
On a recent night, a middle-aged man with a Stetson hat and salt-and-pepper goatee entered the Cicada with his right arm in a sling.
And understandably so: To their many detractors, redistricting consultants surface every 023 years, cicada-like, to ravage the landscape of minority parties in state legislatures and Congress.
Eventually they turned to nature for inspiration, in particular the cicada insect, whose wings are able to kill bacteria because of how they're structured at the nano level.
Every windowsill is a miniature stage for cicada carapaces and crinoid fossils, tiny superheroes left over from our sons' childhood, antique buttons, earrings without mates, watches without bands.
Currently, Dr. Derke Hughes, a researcher at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, is working on a project that aims to create a physics-based model for cicada sound-making.
Madame Claude Bis and Pet Shop remain safely off the beaten path of Newark Avenue's main drag, but not quite as safely off or unbeaten as the Golden Cicada.
Hoyaken is stocked with magazines and bilingual glossaries of "kigo," haiku words used to connote the season like cicada for summer, scarecrow for autumn and the winter-blooming camellia.
Judges: Petra Andrén (Cicada Innovations), Chris Boshuizen (Data Collective), Dean Dorrell (Carthona Capital), Ian Gardiner (Amazon Web Services), Duncan Turner (SOSV) and Eloise Watson (Rampersand) 2:35 PM – 3:00 PM
" The name Golden Cicada was the translation of the Chinese name of his first wife, she in turn named after a character in the epic Chinese novel "Journey to the West.
The team it beat was drinking sulkily elsewhere while these athletes, proud members of their self-named Golden Cicada Soccer Club, celebrated victory with shots of baijiu and bottles of Tsingtao.
The CICADA, or Close-In Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft, have pressure, temperature and humidity sensors on board, and consist basically of a circuit board with tiny wings and autopilot controls built-in.
But in all these years, I have yet to see a child stung by Sphecius speciosus, though I have witnessed a lot of alarmed parents and single-minded cicada killers ignoring them.
Here, take a look at this pair of cropped screenshots from one of the game's markets: The Cicada on the left, which is in near perfect shape, is selling for 212M C-Bills.
The 17-year cicada, also known as the Magicicada, lives underground for 16 years and then, in the 17th year, in a magical, synchronized burst of life, they sprout wings and appear en masse.
By the second inning, the stands had almost filled up, amid the cicada rattle of ratcheted noisemakers known as matracas , and the call-and-response taunts of fans along the first- and third-base lines.
Zhu and his cofounder and co-CEO Louis Yang raised $250,000 from VCs and spent six months building an app called Cicada, where experts could create short three-to-five minute videos explaining a subject.
Like a diabolical cicada, Pennywise the Clown — or rather the supernatural force whose principal avatar he is — has emerged from a period of dormancy, bringing his wheedling, lethal psychological manipulation to a new generation of victims.
For most of his 19803-year career, Mr. Hofeller was little known outside the small band of government clerks, political strategists and data buffs who surfaced, cicada-like, after every decennial census to draw new political maps.
Efforts to overhaul the State Department arrive at Foggy Bottom about as often as a 13-year cicada, an insect that emerges from the soil on the nearby Mall to great noise and annoyance but little effect.
"We use mealworm larvae so the granola is nutty and has this tropical smell, like a cicada on a hot summer night in southern Europe," Bom Frost told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding pancakes made from mealworm flour were also delicious.
The researchers think they have that problem figured out, though: "Our preliminary numerical results suggest that a bumblebee with a cicada wing can generate sufficient lift to hover in the Martian atmosphere," wrote Chang-kwon Kang, a researcher from the University of Alabama.
Bolt is seeking to secure a "triple-triple" in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4x100m relay and was his usual show-stopping self as top billing in an eye-catching Jamaican team news conference at Barra's massive Cicada des Arts theater.
Michael's exhortations to connect body and spirit facilitate an awareness of the park's surroundings — the rising and falling of cicada song, the towering trees that must have borne witness to a great deal of the history that Sinacori laid out so colorfully.
The futuristic design, which Mr. Ponsot said he came up with in conjunction with Cicada, a landscape architecture firm based in Singapore, and Eric Poillot, a Dijon architect, will integrate the complex with his new winery, a restaurant, a boutique and a wine shop.
Western Maryland, eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania, northwestern Virginia and most of West Virginia are expected to see the ascension of the so-called Brood V. There are six species of periodical cicada, three with a 17-year cycle and three with a 13-year cycle.
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From a girl who builds a flying bike to save her village to a female cicada defying the odds to join a flying contest, a new children's book project in Cambodia is seeking to inspire girls to fight stereotypes and male dominance.
You'd also better believe that it's leaden and self-serious and features, like footage of the life cycle of a cicada intercut with young people hooking up and a man with a vaguely Cajun accent drawling about nothing in particular over stock footage of the planet.
The boom, however, doesn't really include the Golden Cicada Tavern and other longtime, old-school holdouts from Jersey City's grittier days, like the Italian-American Barge Inn (scene of a bold F.B.I. raid two years ago) and the African-American-owned bottle-and-billiards joint Indio's Place.
I would sit for like an hour and just listen to cicada, and go to the studio and spend fifteen minutes or twenty minutes doing what I had to do, come back out, listen to the cicadas, go back in and it really was a part of the process.
"If this vibration were audible, it would be analogous to the buzz produced by thousands of cicada bugs when they overrun the tree canopy and grasses in late summer," Douglas MacAyeal, a glaciologist at the University of Chicago who had no role in the research, wrote in a commentary.
As the neighborhood changes fast, the Cicada clings on stubbornly, and Mr. Tan spends his spare time on pet projects, chiefly building an electric car engine that he claims will "disrupt Tesla" after he installs it into the rusty chassis of an old Volkswagen Beetle he keeps in the lot out back.
This concert, which is all about young voices, will feature the world premieres of two works by composers who are expanding that repertory: Francisco J. Núñez, whose "Liminality" focuses on time and human awareness, and Cristian Grases, whose "La Cigarra y la Hormiga" ("The Cicada and the Ant") relates a fable through Latin American rhythms.
While the mezzo Hai Ting Chinn, her voice coolly blooming, evoked the torments of the shepherd boy Andres, a group of instrumentalist-actors drew cicada-like chirps and rasps from blank sheets suspended in space, striking tuning forks against rubber-and-metal bracelets and holding the vibrating wands against the paper until it seemed to speak, in surprised whispers.
And he does so in a fundamentally different way than he did with a painting like "Cicada," which suggests its connection to death, rebirth, and renewal exclusively through its title (though a drawing version in watercolor, graphite pencil, and crayon, also in the show, includes a predella of notebook sketches depicting cicadas, phallic symbols, and a skull and crossbones, among other images and jottings).
On a given night, we face middle schoolers arriving home dragging dead cicada wings stuck on their shoes, announcing starvation; high schoolers, who may or may not have a boyfriend with celiac disease in tow; and a bevy of tutors, employed to prevent these modern children from failing subjects for which they have no particular aptitude, and who also seem to arrive with appetites.
Johns' "Crosshatch" paintings may be the most resolutely abstract work of his career (and such prize canvases as "Cicada," 1979, and "Corpse and Mirror II," 1974-2003, are included in the show), but after ten years of working exclusively in that mode (that is, in paintings — prints and drawings were a different case), the abstractness of the "Clock and Bed" pictures comes apart in a way that opens the door to the artist's richly varied and sometimes maddeningly elusive middle and late works.
So after checking on Mad Max, the screech owl that flew freely in our house that summer, and sometimes picking a cicada for him from the pear tree out front, I set out into the endless summer evening, cutting through the developments next door, that creeping mold of selfsame houses and curving roads, crossed guardrails and culverts, dirt lots and light-industrial blight, past baseball fields where kids called to each other in the hot low sun and the dust rising from the infield was gold powder, all the way to the rutted path that traced our little river, a river of rocks that summer, which I would follow until it turned off into the nicer part of town.

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