(1) On land, an unseen cicada had begun its shrill noise.

(2) Their wings make a whine much like the sound of a cicada .

(3) But even over the noise, I could hear the monotonous drone of a cicada .

(4) The dog-day cicada is dark with green markings.

(5) A lone cicada will sound as loud and true as any brass band practising in an empty concert hall.

(6) Unless you are a cicada or a mosquito, Washington DC is not considered the destination of choice at this time of year.

(7) He goes for walk one day and witnesses a fight between a cicada and a much smaller praying mantis.

(8) A crescent moon had just risen though it was not yet dark, and the cicadas were singing.

(9) The air seemed to beat against my ear drums, vibrating with the piercing rattle of insects - cicadas , grasshoppers and huge black beetles.

(10) If cicadas come out when few predators are around, they flourish.

(11) Today, over a breakfast of orange juice and cereal, the two of them sit on Michael's back patio in the summer and listen to the cicadas sing.

(12) Watch a kite sweep the skies for large insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and dragonflies.

(13) The hum of the cicadas was softening to a barely audible moan.

(14) The cicadas make themselves known on these hot days and they're quite loud from the casuarina trees immediately behind the sand.

(15) They also occasionally eat insects, especially grasshoppers, cicadas and crickets.

(16) She folds her arms across her chest, letting the crickets and cicadas hidden in the garden fill up the silence.

(17) It is a jungle resort where the hill villas are surrounded by lush greenery containing the sounds of screeching monkeys and chattering cicadas .

(18) They are nothing like the cicadas , which pop up every 17 years and make one heck of a racket, then disappear quietly.

(19) The sounds of crickets and cicadas filled the air in the campground.

(20) It's getting darker earlier, the cicadas are singing, and here we are into September.