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The most noticeable part of the cicada invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a person's ears and won't let much else in. “It ...
Cicada is the self-titled debut album from the English electronic music group Cicada, released in the UK in August 2006. The album contained several songs that the band had released previously as 12-inch singles ("Electric Blue", "Cut Right Through", "The Things You Say"). Upon release Cicada earned positive reviews by music critics.
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Cicada (comics), a villain of The Flash comic book series; Cicada 3301, a series of cryptographic puzzles that were posted on the internet in the mid 2010s; Cicada (mythology), several references in classical literature; Cicada (horse) (1959–1981), an American Hall of Fame racehorse; Cicada, an American film; Cicada, a Malayalam film
Cicadas repeat this movement on either side 300 to 400 times a second to create their unique sound. Two eardrums are responsible for carrying sound from the cicada's abdomen to the outside.
The sound, or song, differs among species and serves as a mating call. "That allows them to maintain their species integrity because the females only respond to the sound of their species," Layton ...
Males disable their own tympana while calling, thereby preventing damage to their hearing; [45] a necessity partly because some cicadas produce sounds up to 120 dB (SPL) [45] which is among the loudest of all insect-produced sounds. [46] The song is loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss in humans should the cicada be at "close range". In ...
There are over 3,000 cicada species, each one having a distinct sound, according to Britannica. Males are the only cicadas to produce the sound, which is used to establish authority and attract ...