For some time, I’ve been wondering about adding sound to a post in a strategic and meaningful fashion. With the help of my family, I’ve uploaded a test file, as shown below. Turn up your speaker volume to 100% and then click the Play Button. This is a short clip of Cicada insects, recorded in the garden a few minutes ago. The sound on such a warm afternoon is truly overwhelming.
The loud and often shrill singing of cicadas – a sound synonymous with summer – makes them one of New Zealand's most familiar insects. Cicadas belong to the insect order Hemiptera, a group with piercing and sucking mouthparts. It also includes insects such as aphids, scales, plant hoppers and spittle bugs.
Cicadas have broad, blunt heads with prominent compound eyes, a tapering body, four large membranous wings and six small legs. They should not be confused with those other insect songsters, the grasshoppers, locusts and crickets, which may be identified by their large, jumping, hind legs.
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