Singing insects are cool. Cicadas in particular include some of my favorite singers of any family of animals.
Starting with many insects recorded for South of Midnight by Compulsion Games https://compulsiongames.com/games/south-of-midnight/ I'll add more from around the country and world as I'm able.

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"Tibicen tibicen, Cicada, face, md, upper marlboro, pg county_2014-09-02-11.56.49 ZS PMax" by Sam Droege is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0

Singing Insects

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Scissor-Grinder Cicada - high canopy - LOUD 03

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Swamp Cicada - mid-high canopy 03

Swamp Cicada - mid-high canopy 01

Swamp Cicada - mid-high canopy 04

Scissor-Grinder Cicada - high canopy - LOUD 01

Scissor-Grinder Cicada - high canopy - LOUD 02

Swamp Cicada - mid-high canopy 02

Swamp Cicada, Neotibicen tibicen tibicen, with a long, burbling pre-song buzz
Mastered to remove microphone bumps and interrupting Katydid, HPF below 700Hz (the cicada's song is well above that)

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Swamp Cicada with long pre-buzz

Western Scissors-grinder Cicada, Neotibicen pruinosus pruinosus, with long pre-song buzzing

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Scissor-Grinder Cicada with long pre-song buzz

clean-processed version and parabolic source

NWSFX Insects

Field Crickets: Eastern Striped Cricket, Song

False Katydids: Southeastern Bush Katydid, Calling Song

False Katydids: Oblong-Winged Katydid, Song

Coneheads: Round-Tipped Conehead, Late Summer Song

Coneheads: Round-Tipped Conehead, Spring Song

Coneheads: Davis’ Conehead, Calling Song

clean-processed version and parabolic source

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Cicadas: Walker's Cicada, Short Songs

clean-processed version and parabolic source

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"Tibicen tibicen, Cicada, back, md, upper marlboro, pg county_2014-09-02-11.54.18 ZS PMax" by Sam Droege is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse.

Cicadas: Swamp Or Morning Cicada, Song

clean-processed version and parabolic source

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"Neotibicen pruinosus" by Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/?ref=openverse.

Cicadas: Scissors-Grinder Cicada, Song

Cicadas: Northern Dusk Singing Cicada, Song

Sagebrush Cicada - Okanagana utahensis

I used to think that Washington had no singing Cicadas. It turns out I was wrong. We do have singing cicadas. They have a very brief window of singing that occurs mostly in July, although it can start as early as mid-June and carry into early August. I just wasn't listening in the right places at the right time. I guess that's as good an example as any that our own personal experience doesn't always equate reality.

- found in highly arid regions of Western and inter-mountain North America
- typically sings late-June to early-August from shrubs
- particularly fond of Sagebrush
- parabolic recording mastered for low-end noise pollution
- includes source
- recorded 2023 Summer Solstice day, 2023-06-21
- Taxonomic Family and Tribe: Cicadidae Tibicini

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Cicada - Sagebrush Cicada

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Singing Insects

Andy Martin, Field Recordist