Dee Rees

I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.

American Director

Diane Ackerman

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

American Poet

Chai Jing

The reform and opening up of China hasn't been happening quite the way we've been told, like a small bird breaking out of its egg. Its more like a cicada shedding its skin, emerging ever so slowly. Energy is the last part of that shell that needs to be shed.

Chinese Journalist

Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

Cicadas are mostly heard and seen during specific seasons, like summer or spring.

Seasonal Appearance

Cicadas shed their skin, and empty shells are often found on trees.

Molting Process

The sound cicadas make is a high-pitched buzz or clicking, not a chirp or a song.

Unique Sound

 but stay with me because this isn't an episode just about a really loud swarm of bugs it's actually a crazy tale about an ancient underworld sex drugs and flying zombies and it starts with this sound this massive chorus of male cicadas thank millions of crooning frank

How Cicadas Become...

 Within their micro-world, they are fierce predators, hunting down any creature they can grasp, from mosquitoes to cicadas. And even, though rarely, vertebrates, such as frogs and birds. They can eat anything, from soft and yummy flies to armor-plated beetles.

The Colorful,...

 no I succeeded hello there little fella oh I know you're not happy how can you not admire the beauty of something like this cicada killer but you see he's got this clever trick he's acting like a female the females of course are the

Would You Risk Venomous...

 voices but bring a place to life and I'd like to take you on a world tour now through four different ecosystems they're amazing for very different reasons let's introduce some of the cast for today's show we have empress cicadas

DJing to the sounds of...

 the world amongst the shells of the climate-controlled collection a handful of disturbing bugs stand out these unfortunate creatures have all been victims of varieties of zombie fungi several cicadas are new additions to the

This Fungus Turns...

 the nymphs of the periodical cicada have been biding their time now they march like zombies towards the nearest tree and start the time

Weirdest Creepy Crawly...

 the cicada can make a sound so loud it can damage your eardrums the majority of a lifespan of a cicada is underground

TIL: Cicadas Can Damage...

 Times have never been so good. The cicadas have no defences and virtually offer themselves to their attackers.

Periodical Cicadas...

 This is Mabel. Mabel is an aphid, a small insect in the same order as cicadas, stink bugs,

The bug that poops candy...

 breathtaking that's a huge cicada the whole the Eisen is humble that's probably one of the