Cicadas: Shanghai’s Summer Song

By Tina Kanagaratnam | August 5th, 2019 | Americans in old Shanghai, Cicadas, Nature, People, Shanghai gardens | 0 Comment

"All the different kinds of cicada are now in full song .... most noticeable is the longdrawn song of the big black cicada, whose strident screech fills the air for periods of half a minute to a minute at a time, ceases for a while, and then starts again." Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Nature Notes, 1938 The Shanghai Summer ...