cicada• Hear the birds and cicadas, listen for the gentlebreezerustling the leaves.• Outside there were evening cicadas, and the sounds of children in the street.• Several days ago I also heard one cicada, but none since.• The larvae of the cicadas that sit shrilling on trees spend their lives below ground suckingsap from roots.• There were cicadas in the mimosa and gullscrying on the wing.• The varieties are known, respectively, as 13-year cicadas and 17 year cicadas.• It turns out that there is not just one 13-year cicadaspecies and one 17-year species.