Cicadidae

Nowadays, we can hear the droning of cicadas at everywhere and everytime. Yes, summer is cicadas' time. When I think about summer, I imagine a beach where there are white sands, palm trees, and cicada's droning.(whether actually cicadas live near a beach or not. One more, beautiful girls!!!) Without the droning of cicadas, the mood of summer would be just boring and unsaturated.

Nevertheless, thesedays a huge number of people do not only hate cicada but also abhor them because of its high pitched droning. According to experts, its average noise level is around 70dB and that is more abrasive than cars'. Definitely the droning of cicadas make people nervous and can't sleep well but that is not their fault. As a matter of fact, almost every cicadas do not drone in the night. However, the lights of building, neon signs, streetlights let them confuse night with day and they drone all the night.

I can understand people who hates cicadas but I would also like to say them cicada's short life and its beauty. As you know, cicadas live under the ground from 1 year to 17 years.(It varies from species to species.) Unfortunately they only can live approximately 1 month under the sun. That means we can hear their serenade only for 1 month a year and if we lived 80 years, we can hear only 80 months in our life.

And I want to ask them whether they have looked carefully at a cicada ever in their life. Every cicada has its beautiful patterns and colors on its body. I can assert that its pattern is more beautiful than any other tatoo of human being. Those are the reasons why I like cicadas.

Here are some photos of cicadas. I took these photos when I went out to examine their ecdysis at 3 a.m. If you see their pure and clean colour, you will be fallen in love with them. Enjoy it!



If you are interested in cicadas, please visit http://cicadero.netian.com/. This site has both Korean and English pages.

Originally updated: 2006.08.11 02:31