Sentences with phrase «of cicadas»

It is late August, when the sound of the cicadas rises in the trees, when the morning light takes on a different, golden shade.

Speaking of bugs, we have a 17 year cycle of cicadas hatching soon.

Leaving the car parked slantwise along the shoulder, we continue on foot, the trill of cicadas rising and falling in the dusty summer heat.

«An extreme climatic stimulus might cue large numbers of cicadas to shift, perhaps even enough to satiate predators,» Cooley and colleagues wrote in a 2003 essay on climate shifts and periodical cicada life cycles.

Janney purges the moistness from her voice, so she looks and sounds like the husk of a cicada you find sometimes in summer.

However, this species of cicada starts crying at the end of the rainy season, which generally falls in July.»

Most of my summer holidays as a child were spent in Florida, I loved everything about it, the sun, the breathtaking beaches, the food, the smell of suncream, the noise of the cicadas in the evening, even the torrential rain.

Teach LCM with the life of the Cicada bugs or teach proportions using celebrity faces and the golden ratio.

The compositing of the striptease with a pair of lovers making out to the cry of cicadas against a red brick wall is alight with hyper - reality and the promise of future brilliance.

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.

Occasionally the Arlington Heights Park District has had to temporarily close the sandbox portion of various playgrounds due to the presence of the Cicada Killer Wasp.

Then one day last week, as fast as you can pull a plug, the sound of the cicadas vanished.

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.

- Charles Crookenden — A Feast of Cicadas - Ricki Rusting — Call Us «Scientific Home Journal» - Ashutosh Jogalekar — East Antarctic glaciers could be much more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought.

As the first day of spring approaches a scientific mystery will soon return with a roar — the 2013 return of the east coast b rood of cicadas, or Brood II.

Knowing that researchers in the early 20th century had shown that avian predators can wipe out an entire population of cicadas that emerges out of sequence, Koenig decided to take a look at how bird populations might affect the insects» cycles.

The timing of the cicadas» cycles is all about manipulating their predators — and «may have nothing to do with these being prime numbers,» he emphasizes.

Koenig cites another study that reveals the enormous effect the biomass of cicadas has on the environment.

This cell - within - a-cell relationship can also be found in corals and in the guts of cicadas, but the green alga - spotted salamander interaction is the only known example of a symbiont entering the cells of a vertebrate species.

Scientists study the unusual genome evolution of the bacteria that live within a genus of cicadas.

For those of you still unfamiliar with the Cicada 3301 puzzle, it has been called «the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age» by In accountancy, depreciation refers to two aspects of the same concept: [1] The decrease in value of assets (fair value depreciation) The allocation of the

Set against the backdrop of a summer of cicadas and swimming pools, the film blends elements of up - beat teenage melodrama with the strange gravity of classic coming of age stories.

Collecting the shells will tell you how many and what kind of cicadas inhabit a certain area.»

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

~ Belle Whittington Author of CICADA and FIREFLY

Joanne is the editor of The Cicada's Cry: A Micro Zine of Haiku Poetry with Maria Masington.

Five years ago this March, I published my very first book, A Symphony of Cicadas.

The thrum of cicadas filled the air.

Aside from staring at the amazing views, which can easily while away a few days, there's trekking galore and waterfalls to explore — but be sure to be back in time to watch the sunset unfold to a chorus of cicadas and frogs.

There are a variety of entertaining games to play while lounging around on the patio after dinner, overlooking the pool, and being serenaded by the choir of cicadas, crickets and singing frogs.

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It was a real pain getting a recording of the cicadas.

A good example: last summer the visitor's center — and even some artworks — was covered in a veil of cicadas.

Consisting of diverse materials, the sculpture is composed of balloons, molded from paper pulp and covered in snakeskin, dried honeycomb, a mirrored box filled with abandoned skins of cicadas, and a drawer of human bones also fabricated of paper pulp, replicating the exact size and proportions of the artist's own body.

The 17 - year cycle of the cicada resembles her creative approach.

It turned out he had just returned from a visit to Missouri and Illinois, where he had convened with clouds of cicadas, saxophone in hand and attended the 13th International Meeting on Invertebrate Sound and Vibration.

In recent weeks, a similar sound, building to levels of up to 120 decibels, has been heard across 16 southern and Midwestern states as billions of cicadas emerge to mate after 13 years underground.

There are at least 60 different species of trees; green things thrive and reach for the sky, the air is thick with the raspy harmonics of cicada, and creatures from elephants to leopards and tigers roam freely in this newfound expanse of Eden.

About this time of year, I start dreaming of all things tropical and mid-summer nights full of cicada sounds and lush, dark green foliage.

Now Koenig and his colleagues suggest the lengths of the cycles may somehow cause the numbers of cicadas» predators — insectivorous birds — to drop.

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.

Start your day with a swim in our freshwater pool or in the clear, warm waters of the Caribbean sea; take a water taxi trip or try your hand at snorkeling or diving in Marigot Bay; enjoy a gourmet dinner of locally - sourced fresh food; and fall asleep to the song of cicadas and tree frogs.

As the sun sets, enjoy the lights of Cancun glistening across the water like a diamond necklace as the sounds of cicadas and birds fill your ears.

And a quick learner, my older toddler can explain evaporation, how geysers work, and the life cycle of cicadas.

Go to sleep with the sounds of the Cicadas, Crickets and the ocean in this gorgeous modern house and wake up every morning with the visit of the howler monkey's family, Sloths, Toucans and the Hummingbirds in Playa Grande, Manzanillo.

Reaching the Source (unconcerned with or without; the sound of cicadas) 10.

In Search of the Bull (aimless searching, only the sound of cicadas) 2.