0 a large insect found in warm countries that produces a high continuous sound --
1 a large insect with transparent wings which it rubs together to produce a high, continuous sound esp. when the weather is hot: --
A number of cicadas have evolved this affinity for a single species of tree.
Many people around the world regularly eat cicadas.
The sound of a creek running nearby, birds chirping, the regular hum of the cicadas.
Red wattlebirds have been found to ignore the cicadas, possibly because their gapes are not wide enough to accommodate swallowing them whole.
Common diet items include crickets, locusts, beetles, earwigs, cicadas, ant lions, bugs and ants.
He wanted just to listen to the concerto of the birds and the cicadas.
Certain features of the cicadas' environment and behaviour are modelled in the composition, such as the warm weather required for them to sing.
In some areas soil disturbance by emerging cicada larvae caused some seedling death.
