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Cicada
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The cicada has represented insouciance since antiquity.
Will you shut up, hellish cicada?
I think it's a cicada.
The cicada nymph was caught in a spider web, grew wings and flew away.
The cicada never meets the ant. Even though it sees it, it ignores it. Unless it's dead.
Who does not know the fable of the cicada and the ant?
Do you know what a cicada is?
Dmitri heard the hum of a distant cicada.
While people are working, you, the cicada, are singing.
Quietness! The cicada song soaks into the rocks.
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Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
The emergence years of the principal cicada broods have now been recorded for a long time, and the oldest record of a swarm is that of the appearance of the “locusts” in New England two hundred and ninety-five years ago.
Last year, the Brood I cicadas were found in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The cicadas that will emerge in New Jersey this year are part of Brood II or The East Coast Brood. They will also be found in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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