Since the beginning of June, a collaborative map has offered to identify cicadas across France. And it did not escape Olivia Leray.
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You may have heard it this weekend: that’s it, the cicadas have started to sing. Or rather to cymbalize since, know it, the cicada does not sing, it cymbalizes.
And this noise does not come from its mouth but from a kind of muscle at the base of its wings which is therefore called the cymbal. In short, the SVT course being done, the cicadas are arriving. And there is someone in France who said to himself “Hey, how about we all get together to see where they go first?“. And the latter is called Denis, math teacher. And if you hear a cicada, just report it on this collaborative map.
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For the song of the cicadas team: a collaborative map to indicate the 1st songs of the year.
Don’t be too specific about the address, otherwise we’ll come and party at your house!https://t.co/qnwgA9WP7q pic.twitter.com/8X2hU5LGOv— she bobs (@ze_armavi) June 5, 2022
For the past week, there have been nearly a thousand cicada songs that have been reported. And not only in Provence. For example, we could hear it in the Drôme, in Paris or in Finistère.
A cute card… but useful for those who hate cicadas. As in 2018, in the Var, where tourists, who could not take their nap, had asked the mayor of the village to apply insecticide. This gave the idea of this song to the Toulon music group, Aïoli.