Sentences with phrase «called cicada»

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Dr. Sanborn said he gave the agents a couple of academic papers he has written that include analyses of the temporal patterns and spectral frequency of various cicada calls, but has not heard from them again.

The four FBI agents who came to Dr. Sanborn's home for the interview asked him a series of questions about insect calls in general and cicadas in particular.

At the time I was 6 (or so) so I was more concerned with the beckoning call of the cicadas to go out and play, so long as a slice was awaiting my return.

Many «loud» bugs such as cicadas and tiger moths use corrugated abdominal structures called tymbals to generate their buzz.

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.

They study cicadas belonging to the Cicadettini tribe, a group in which males and females locate each other with a characteristic call - and - response routine.

During the 2004 cicada emergence in Baltimore, one of the administrators in my graduate biology department told me she was fielding phone calls daily from people with questions about cicadas.

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

My mother used to threaten to tear me into eight pieces if I knocked over the water bucket, or pretended not to hear her calling me to come home as the dusk thickened and the cicadas» shrilling increased.

A sweltering July day, bare feet in the grass, cicadas singing... the whole scene calls for a treat that embodies a bit of that nostalgia.