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7 unusual facts about Cicada


Cultural Centre busway station

There is a giant-size model of a Cicada right outside Platform 2 of the station (possibly due to the Cultural Centre Busway Station being the bus stop for the museum).

Ernst Friedrich Germar

Observations sur plusieurs espèces du genre Cicada, Latr. Rev. Entomol. Silbermann 2: 49-82, pls.

Illa Conillera

There is a type of Cicada, who’s monotonous, rattle snake like chirping can be heard all over the island.

Nanopillar

Cicadas' wings are covered in tiny, nanopillar shaped rods.

Origo Sound

The initiative to start the label was taken after Tormod Opedal, an employee in Lervik's software company, in 1989 had decided to close his own label Cicada which had released two albums by the Norwegian composer Erik Wøllo.

Queensland Museum

There is a large sculpture of a Cicada in front of the centre lift, possibly because the Cultural Centre busway station is the bus stop for the museum.

WebDNA

WSC purchased the intellectual property that is WebDNA, and in 2009, WSC released a new WebDNA version 6.2 (Cicada).


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Brood II

In 2013, to aid in accurately mapping the geographic range of Brood II, National Public Radio's science show Radiolab created the Cicada Tracker project.

Cicada orni

The genus name comes directly from the Latin cicada meaning "buzzer", while the species name orni possibly comes from Fraxinus ornus (Manna Ash or South European Flowering Ash), where this cicada often lay its eggs deep in branches.

Gymnosporia heterophylla

The tree has a close relationship with a number of cicada species, such as Platypleura divisa, P. mijburghi and P. maytenophila.

Patrick Bingham-Hall

He is the author of monographs on WOHA Architects, Guz Architects, Peter Stutchbury, Colin K. Okashimo, K2LD Architects, Cicada Landscape Architects, LOOK Architects, and a book on houses in the Asia-Pacific region.

Platypleura sylvia

This cicada is found in closed bushveld that includes the tree Vitex obovata, a member of the Verbenaceae, a tree also endemic to South Africa and Swaziland, and with which it has a close and exclusive relationship.

Slovenian Museum of Natural History

The Slovenian Wildlife Sound Archive is a collection of animal sounds, mainly on Heteroptera and cicadas, stored on digital and analogue recording media.

Staten Island Museum

A display of the largest cicada collection (approx. 35,000 specimens) in North America, which includes numerous type specimens of species originally described by William T. Davis.


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