Sentences with phrase «by cicadas»

My beautiful gardens, the last apple tree and twilights drilled by cicadas and frogs.

The engineers also concluded that the noises were at decibel levels too low to cause hearing loss — but that the primary sounds on the recordings were made by cicadas.

Technically, it is just the exoskeleton left behind by a cicada nymph, making it the only bug in the game that is not living.

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And we'd end up sitting on a curb in the parking lot by the light of a street lamp, listening to night cicadas or cars going by, and we would talk about how no one had ever, could ever, have been in love like we were in love, and we would kiss until we were dizzy before walking back to the dorms, just in time for curfew.

As the planet warms — and as that warming accelerates due to man - made climate change — «the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet,» Wildlife Conservation Society entomologist Craig Gibbs wrote in an op - ed last week in The New York Times.

Stories from the Onondaga Nation near Syracuse, N.Y., tell of being rescued from famine by the timely emergence of periodical cicadas.

The curious phenomenon of the cicada's periodical life cycle is the subject of much debate among scientists, who are limited to no small extent by the infrequency of the insect's visits to the surface.

«Our hypothesis is, frankly, hard to believe, even by us, if for no other reason because we know of no mechanism to explain how cicada emergences could be driving a cycle in the birds that is so long — 13 or 17 years,» Koenig says.

Sap - sucking insects, such as cicadas, are the most frequently attacked by fungi.

Those come - hither clicks were not the love call of a female cicada but a con trick executed by a voracious predator in search of a meal.

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I think what Alexis did was pop the colours by just a degree and then my sound design, we brought the ambience up to have the cicadas right in your face, the helicopter and all of that.

Her name is LaVona Golden, and she's played to howling effect by Allison Janney, who looks and sounds like the husk of a cicada you find sometimes in summer.

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, Cicada Shells can be donated to the Museum followed by a small talk by Blathers, the curator.

It's possible to find out the species of cicadas just by looking at these shells.

Before attending Columbia, Jamie spent two years teaching English to seventh and eighth graders at a rural public school in southwest China, where her students tried to help her overcome a fear of large insects by putting cicadas in her hair.

Johanna, called «Cicada» by the Kiowa, gradually responds to his attempts at conversation and «civilized» manners, especially when his voice turns patient and soothing.

Both CICADA and FIREFLY (the sequel) have been well - received by readers.

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With evenings lit by fireflies and flaming torches, amidst a background of singing cicadas, it was so stunning I didn't want to leave.

I live in New Zealand, surrounded by trees and chirping cicadas, and with a distant view of the Pacific Ocean.

There were no streetlights outside and no artificial illuminations — complete and utter darkness broken only by our voices and the cicada's song.

Besides, new high - end travel suppliers including luxury lodges such as Cicada Lodge in Australia, Minaret Station in New Zealand (accessible only by helicopter) and Pikaia Lodge - a five star eco-lodge set in the crater of an extinct volcano in The Galapagos Islands are also attending this year's fest.

There are also many new high - end travel suppliers attending, including luxury lodges such as Cicada Lodge in Australia, Minaret Station in New Zealand (accessible only by helicopter) and Pikaia Lodge - a five star eco-lodge set in the crater of an extinct volcano in The Galapagos Islands.

Staying in jungle lodges, at night be serenaded to sleep by the soundtrack of distant cicadas, dove song and duetting frogs, and wake to the cacophony of howler monkeys, the humming of insects and chirping of birds.

With a stay at Anantasila Villa by the Sea in Hua Hin (Nong Kae), you'll be convenient to Wat Khao Takiab and Cicada Market.

Along a private driveway, the only sounds you hear are birds & cicadas, yet you are minutes (approx 4 mins by car) from town.

Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) Cicada 1979 Watercolor, crayon, and pencil on paper The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund

Olga Grotova's films hook us into the cyclic calm of nuns who look as if they've stepped out of a Helmut Newton photo; Nika Neelova turns the topography of a shucked - off exoskeleton hanging below into a coolly folded room above; Yelena Popova provides both apparently evaporated portraits, as from the deep past, and an empty cut - out awaiting future faces; undeterred by their lack of tymbals to flex and wings to flick, Neelova and Mira Calix team up to imitate both male and female cicadas in the corridor, crossing sex and species boundaries and referencing the mythical transformation of people into the insects when first introduced to and overpowered by music.

Other films include Claes Oldenburg in his studio, lovingly inspecting his eclectic knick - knack collection and dusting them with a paintbrush; the poet Michael Hamburger showing the rare apples he has grown in his Suffolk orchard - including those that originated from his friend Ted Hughes; and the artist Mario Merz, who sits in a garden like an ancient deity, holding a pine cone and accompanied by the sound of chirruping cicadas.