The family name is based on the genus Tettigonia, which is New Latin ( Linnaeus, 1748 ), and derives from the Greek (), a cicada.

The name is a direct derivation of the Latin cicada, meaning " tree cricket ".

Thenus orientalis, for example, is sometimes referred to as the flathead locust lobster ( its French name, cigale raquette, literally " raquet cicada ," is yet another instance of the locust-cicada-lobster nomenclatural connection ).

Also of note is the fact that all three so-called locusts ( the grasshopper, the cicada, and the lobster ) have been a traditional source of food for various peoples around the world ( see entomophagy ).

Sphecius speciosus, often simply referred to as the cicada killer, is a large digger wasp species.

However, since there are multiple species of related wasps, it is more appropriate to call it the eastern cicada killer.

After paralyzing a cicada, the female wasp holds it upside down beneath her and takes off toward her burrow ; this return flight to the burrow is difficult for the wasp because the cicada is often more than twice her weight.

Male eggs are laid on a single cicada but female eggs are given two or sometimes three cicadas ; this is because the female wasp is twice as large as the male and must have more food.

It is suspected that the western cicada killer represents more than one species.

There is also evidence to suggest that the eastern cicada killer either has a subspecies or a closely related species that mimics the Pacific cicada killer.

The spectacled cicada killer, Sphecius spectabilis, is found in the South American countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, Surinam and Venezuela.

The Peng bird can either be construed as an image of freedom, even the epitome of the highest Daoist ideal, which supports the argument that Zhuangzi does privilege a perspective and hence is not a relativist in the rigid sense of the term ; or it is taken for a creature that is no better or worse than the cicada and the little birds, which serves to illustrate the relativist view that all perspectives are equal.

Yama-dera is where the well-known haiku poet Matsuo Bashō wrote his famous haiku " ah this silence / sinking into the rocks / voice of cicada " in 1689.

The name CIGALE —() which is French for cicada — originates from the fact that the developers installed a speaker at each computer, so that " it went ' chirp chirp chirp ' like cicadas " when a packet passed a computer ( Gillies and Cailliau 2000: 38 ).

One of the more notable predators is the cicada killer.

After catching and stinging the insect to paralyze it, the cicada killer carries it back to its hole and drags it underground to a chamber where it lays its eggs in the paralyzed cicada.

In certain regional varieties of English, " locust " can refer to the large swarming grasshopper, the cicada ( which may also swarm ), and rarely to the praying mantis (" praying locust ").

Cicada killers exert a measure of natural control on cicada populations and thus may directly benefit the deciduous trees upon which their cicada prey feed.

A male eastern cicada killer guarding its territory and looking for females with which to mate

The North American cicada killer wasps all belong to the genus Sphecius, of which there are 21 species worldwide.

There are also other genera of cicada-killing wasps ( e. g., Liogorytes in South America and Exeirus in Australia ) which are the " cicada killers " of their native lands.

Because of the influence of La Fontaine's Fables, in which La cigale et la fourmi stands at the beginning, the cicada then became the proverbial example of improvidence in France: so much so that Jules-Joseph Lefebvre ( 1836 – 1911 ) could paint a picture of a female nude biting one of her nails among the falling leaves and be sure viewers would understand the point by giving it the title La Cigale.

Their country is around the Katherine Gorge area, which they have always called Nitmiluk, which means place of cicada dreaming.

empty cicada, in reference to their molting ), which allows Byakuya to move out of harm's way while leaving an afterimage behind.

* Megapede / Giant Cicada-A giant centipede / cicada hybrid that was destroying farms in Chicago, Illinois.

A guitar-playing cicada monster created by Lord Zedd from a cicada that was near Kimberly's guitar.

Adult eastern cicada killer wasps are large, long, robust wasps with hairy, reddish and black areas on the thorax ( middle part ), and are black to reddish brown marked with light yellow stripes on the abdominal ( rear ) segments.

Amongst these exist a myriad of insects, including hairy caterpillars ( 毛虫 ), centipede, giant hornets ( スズメバチ ), stick insects, praying mantis ( カマキリ ), cicada ( セミ ), a number of amphibians and over 70 species of butterfly ( 蝶 ).

* Quesada ( cicada ), a covered-tymbal cicada genus

* Illyria ( cicada ), a genus of translucent cicadas

Its etymology comes from the Nahuatl words of Mexican origin, Chiquilichtl-a-pan, meaning " The stream of cicadas or locusts " that interpretation from the analysis of the roots following Chiquilich ( grasshopper or cicada ), Atl.

More smoothly finished tea scoop, with carved cicada s.

The native cicada also became extinct with the loss of the juniper forest.

After digging a nest chamber in the burrow, female cicada killers capture cicadas, paralyzing them with a sting.

After putting one or more cicadas in her nest cell, the female deposits an egg on a cicada and closes the cell with dirt.

Although cicada killers are large, female cicada killer wasps are not aggressive and rarely sting unless they are grasped roughly, stepped upon with bare feet, or caught in clothing, etc.

The first account contrasts the giant Peng bird with a small tiao ( 蜩 " cicada ") and jiu ( 鳩 " pigeon ; turtledove ") and the third with a yan ( 鴳 or 鷃 " quail ").

In Jean Vernon's bronze medal from the 1930s, the supplicant cicada is depicted as crouching on a branch while the ant rears up below with its legs about a beechnut.

In La Cigale, Anouilh engages with the reality of the artistic life, reviewing the cicada as the type of the female musician.

A large statue of a cicada stands at the northern entrance to the town.

This is a large wasp that catches the dog day cicada.