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The whole album, Songs for Swining Larvae, is inspired by insects. [9] There Ain't No Bugs On Me: Insects-general (Traditional folk song) (Traditional folk song) Unknown: Folk: There is a popular recording of this song by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman on the album, Not for Kids Only. Dog and Butterfly: Lepidoptera: Ann Wilson N/ancy Wilson ...
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 ...
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Insects have appeared in music from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" to such popular songs as "Blue-tailed Fly" and the folk song La Cucaracha which is about a cockroach. Insect groups mentioned include bees, ants, flies and the various singing insects such as cicadas, crickets, and beetles, while other songs refer to bugs in general.
Insect winter ecology describes the overwinter survival strategies of insects, which are in many respects more similar to those of plants than to many other animals, such as mammals and birds. Unlike those animals, which can generate their own heat internally ( endothermic ), insects must rely on external sources to provide their heat ...
Tanna japonensis, also called the evening cicada or higurashi (Japanese: 日暮, 蜩, 茅蜩, ひぐらし, ヒグラシ), is a species of cicada, a family of insects, and a member of the genus Tanna. It is distributed throughout East Asia, and is most common in Japan. Its shrill call can be heard most often in the morning and evening.
During extreme cold events, you may hear a loud boom and feel like you have experienced an earthquake. However, this event was more likely a cryoseism, also known as an ice quake or a frost quake ...
The family name Tettigoniidae is derived from the genus Tettigonia, of which the great green bush cricket is the type species; it was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. In Latin tettigonia means a kind of small cicada, leafhopper ; [ 5 ] it is from the Greek τεττιγόνιον tettigonion , the diminutive of the imitative ...