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cicadas

Finding art in nature with cicada Brood XIV

Justin Hicks, KPR

June 9, 2025

Brood XIV is emerging across Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. While the cicadas are annoying to some, they offer profound meaning to others.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, cicadas, wildlife

Beavers, cardinals and cicadas are the session players on this Nashville album recorded in Shelby Bottoms

Justin Barney

August 12, 2024

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The most serene place in Nashville just might be a park bench at dusk in Shelby Bottoms. And now, you can be there whenever you want thanks to Camille Faulkner.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Boygenius, cicadas, Metro Parks, Shelby Bottoms, wildlife

Listen: Peak cicada? First-timers share their appreciation and grievances about the brood

Rachel Iacovone

May 23, 2024

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WPLN News wanted to know how cicada first-timers were feeling as the bugs emerge, so turned to the newsroom newbies for their hopes — and fears.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: cicadas, nonnarrated storytelling, wildlife

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