[senkora]

In Japan, they have a different species of cicada, and cicadas reliably emerge every single summer. As a result, the sound of cicadas is a popular shorthand for summertime in Japanese media: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/cicadas-in-japan/

[dkarl]

Cicadas like that exist in different places around the world, including in the southern United States. They're a kind of regional mascot in Provence.

[tapeloop]

yeah I went to Tennessee on holiday in 2017 (from Scotland) and thought I'd managed to time it perfectly for a brood emerging, but one of the locals said it was a yearly occurrence. It was still fantastic to hear that constant background noise