If there was a way to use a flamethrower in the woods and kill nothing but cicadas… I would be the first in line.
carliesays
Heard the first ones yesterday, in fact. Not many in the northeast, but as someone who grew up in the midwest, they are the sound of summer to me. Love it.
sytecsays
Carlie @2: Same here in Texas… sound reminds me of summer and childhood (when we used to collect the molts). Awesome sound.
Loftysays
I wonder if they all get tinnitus from their constant racket?
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trollssays
I haven’t had a problem this summer with cicadas. Now, this creature has been a problem, about every third night.
stewartt1982says
I’m in Japan now, and a Japanese summer without the cicadas sound would be somehow improper.
I have a baby skunk who has been stalking my yard the last couple weeks, digging up and eating the japanese beetle and cicada grubs. One man’s annoyance is another skunk’s windfall, I suppose. Sometimes I cheer him on.
greg hilliardsays
I’ve been hearing those — or crickets — 24/7 since November 2012. Such is life with tinnitus. Funny thing is I heard some cicadas over my inner-ear cicadas this past Saturday.
microraptorsays
I don’t recall ever seeing cicadas around where I live. Are they native to western Oregon at all?
I do recall finding them in my grandmother’s back yard just outside of Philadelphia when I was a kid.
gijoelsays
Eeeh, Eeeeh, Eeeeh, Eeeeh
A. Noydsays
stewartt1982 (#6)
I’m in Japan now, and a Japanese summer without the cicadas sound would be somehow improper.
All the same, the クマゼミ are more than welcome to stay the fuck out of my back yard.
The linked article is from 2013. In 2015, periodic cicadas from broods IV and XXIII are emerging in IA, KS, MO, NE, OK, TX, AR, IL, IN, KY, LA, MO, MS, and TN. So what’s probably being heard in MN are annual cicadas, which tend to be green, not orange.
moarscienceplzsays
From the link:
Walter Koenig, researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, supports the true decline hypothesis…
I’m with carlie and sytec. Childhood summers. Jumping fences. A jar of fire flies. Running loose in the neighborhood, but be sure to come home when the street lights come on. Sitting on the back porch in my pajamas. I get all this from that sound.
If there was a way to use a flamethrower in the woods and kill nothing but cicadas… I would be the first in line.
Heard the first ones yesterday, in fact. Not many in the northeast, but as someone who grew up in the midwest, they are the sound of summer to me. Love it.
Carlie @2: Same here in Texas… sound reminds me of summer and childhood (when we used to collect the molts). Awesome sound.
I wonder if they all get tinnitus from their constant racket?
I haven’t had a problem this summer with cicadas. Now, this creature has been a problem, about every third night.
I’m in Japan now, and a Japanese summer without the cicadas sound would be somehow improper.
Including tonight. Ugh.
I have a baby skunk who has been stalking my yard the last couple weeks, digging up and eating the japanese beetle and cicada grubs. One man’s annoyance is another skunk’s windfall, I suppose. Sometimes I cheer him on.
I’ve been hearing those — or crickets — 24/7 since November 2012. Such is life with tinnitus. Funny thing is I heard some cicadas over my inner-ear cicadas this past Saturday.
I don’t recall ever seeing cicadas around where I live. Are they native to western Oregon at all?
I do recall finding them in my grandmother’s back yard just outside of Philadelphia when I was a kid.
Eeeh, Eeeeh, Eeeeh, Eeeeh
stewartt1982 (#6)
All the same, the クマゼミ are more than welcome to stay the fuck out of my back yard.
“Cornell Lab of Ornithology”???
And there was me thinking that birds were dinos not insects…
I heard one yesterday, the first in a long time. I liked it. It sounded proud and happy and summery. But, ask again in a few weeks.
The linked article is from 2013. In 2015, periodic cicadas from broods IV and XXIII are emerging in IA, KS, MO, NE, OK, TX, AR, IL, IN, KY, LA, MO, MS, and TN. So what’s probably being heard in MN are annual cicadas, which tend to be green, not orange.
From the link:
I wondered where Ensign Chekov had gone.
I’m with carlie and sytec. Childhood summers. Jumping fences. A jar of fire flies. Running loose in the neighborhood, but be sure to come home when the street lights come on. Sitting on the back porch in my pajamas. I get all this from that sound.