Exempel på cicada

• At the end of seventeen years the cicadas come up out of the earth in great swarms. 

• Everywhere the cicadas kept the heat vibrating with their strident buzz. 

• He has brought us the cast-off skin of a cicada to look at. 

• In the South it takes only thirteen years for these cicadas to develop. 

• The cicada sticks it into a leaf or young twig to suck out the juice. 

• The patterned data produced by reaction-diffusion systems is used to create a naturalistic soundscape in the piece cicada.

• Each cicada either sings, chirps, clicks, or is silent depending on its environment and the weather conditions which are modelled by reaction-diffusion patterns.

• The third level of the time tree structure is used to determine note and rhythmic durations of individual cicadas when they are active.

• Loud though the cicadas may be, their occupancy of spectral space does not mask any of the other sounds.

• Creating sustained tones with the cicada's rapid sequential buckling mechanism.

• Values from each of the three levels are consulted to determine whether each cicada sings, chirps, or clicks, or whether it is inactive.

• The next level of branches provides durational values for the series of episodes in which the aural behaviour of the cicadas is portrayed.

• In some areas soil disturbance by emerging cicada larvae caused some seedling death.

• Certain features of the cicadas' environment and behaviour are modelled in the composition, such as the warm weather required for them to sing.

• He wanted just to listen to the concerto of the birds and the cicadas.

• Common diet items include crickets, locusts, beetles, earwigs, cicadas, ant lions, bugs and ants.

• Red wattlebirds have been found to ignore the cicadas, possibly because their gapes are not wide enough to accommodate swallowing them whole.

• The sound of a creek running nearby, birds chirping, the regular hum of the cicadas.

• Many people around the world regularly eat cicadas.

• A number of cicadas have evolved this affinity for a single species of tree.