The Cicada Festival Returns
During the high summer months in Japan, cicadas return to fill the air with their high shrill chirping. It is an extraordinary sound that can almost hypnotise the listener.Cicadas are found throughout the world in temperate and tropical climates.
Right: A cicada in China.
Photography by El-Branden Brazil
Unlike grasshoppers and crickets which produce their sound by rubbing their back wings together, cicadas create their unique song through tymbals at the side of the abdomen. With powerful muscles they rapidly vibrate membranes within, resonating the sound through their body.
You can hear the sound of Japanese cicadas HERE.
2 comments:
Cicadas are strange things aren't they. I once lived in a forest setting in Nepal for a few months,in which hordes of Cicadas drove everyone insane rather than soothed nerves. It almost sounded like we were working amongst Canadian loggers, with chainsaws.
Thank you for the comment. Yes, they do produce the weirdest of sounds.
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