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cicada

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The genus Cicada is a group of Old World cicadas .

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The night was filled with the croaking of frogs, the cleek, cleek, cleek of the black necked stilt, the zi-zi, zi-zi of cicadas, the choc, choc of the crow blackbirds, and the many other night songs of various wild creatures.

The air was hot and unmoving, not leavened by even the hint of a breeze, and the only sounds on this still afternoon were the scratchy scuttlings of lizards in the underbrush abutting the road, the chirrups of unseen cicadas, and the occasional far-off rumbling of truck engines as Corban pickups headed on or off the highway.

But briefly, the situation In the s tilde called Cicada Sector is this: The sector was first reached-but never more than partially explored tilde ver a hundred and fitty terran years ago.

But then neighborhood pets begin to come up missing, unidentifiable animals are found as road kill, hordes of cicadas and grackles invade his yard.

Over this regalia he battened an armor of ridged lamellae in which he swaggered for half a day until the heat became unbearable and, rather irresponsibly, he abandoned his outer casing under a tree like some drab cicada reaching adulthood.

Cicadas were singing around them, trilling their mechanical trill, and if she listened intently, she could also hear crickets and katydids and, somewhere farther off, the baritone lullaby of frogs.

Shunning the dogmeat sausages, Noel asked about a dish called chong roet, which turned out to be live locusts or cicadas broiled over pans of charcoal.

The chattering of squirrels above him worried into his head, accompanied by the stridulations of crickets and cicadas anticipating the coming of dark, just a bell or so away.

The cicadas and bullfrogs were stilled, birdlife was no longer chirruping.

The drone of cicadas, the mournful cry of toucans, the rustle of a coatimundi in dry leaves, all returned to normal for this time of day and year.

The clearest results that John Dolittle obtained were with imported insects, such as locusts and cicadas of different kinds.

Even the dogs had been taken in and the only sound--other than the buzz of discussion going on inside the lodge--was the harsh sawpit song of a young cicada in lust.

He rolled down his window, smelled the skunkweed, heard the water, the cicadas.

Jill grinned, hearing the drone of cicadas and crickets on the night air.

Beyond the high walls, the crickets and cicadas hummed their ceaseless song, a soothing reminder that there was still a sane world outside.