cicada

As if from some horror movie, cicada nymphs have been described as “boiling out of the ground.”

The trees were fully green, and luscious fruits weighed down their branches, while over all was the drowsy hum of the cicada.

We see, in drawings emblematical of the musical art, a Cicada resting on strings of a cythera.

Nature has indemnified the female Cicada for this privation, by giving her an instrument less noisy indeed, but more useful.

M. Boyer managed thus to make a Cicada, which continued to sing as long as he whistled in harmony with it, settle on his nose.

But if one presents a stick to it, continuing to whistle, the Cicada settles on it and begins again to descend backwards.