Cicada noise???

[GonnaCatchABig1]

Originally Posted by Squid kids Dad

Went down South Cape Beach this morning with my son fishing..Only one blue...On the way back on rt 151 the friggin noise was un-belieable from the woods...The high picthed buzzing was almost deafening..Sounded like an alien ship was gonna attack...Any body else hear it?

mmm the sound of summer. there arent too many here by the water.. half a mile inland though thats all you hear. probably my favorite noise as a child. it signaled the end of school. it's a bit cool for them to be buzzing today. (atleast here) usually only here them on 80plus days.

it's surprising with as loud as they are how impossible it is to see one. heard them every day of the summer my whole life and had never seen one till i was 21. it got blown into my window during a tropical storm. ugly things. i thought it might have come up from florida in the storm and finally got blown out onto my window. gigantic brightly colored bug. didnt know what it was till i looked it up.

[OnTheLedge]

Where I'm from, Long Island, cicadas are everywhere and make a ton of noise. Not as many here in RI. My college buddy from Maine once visited my parents house and asked, "What is that buzzing sound?" Just the cicadas

"....Crickets and cicadas sing...a rare and different tune. Terrapin Station" -Grateful Dead

[OnTheLedge]

Originally Posted by GonnaCatchABig1

it's surprising with as loud as they are how impossible it is to see one. heard them every day of the summer my whole life and had never seen one till i was 21. it got blown into my window during a tropical storm. ugly things. i thought it might have come up from florida in the storm and finally got blown out onto my window. gigantic brightly colored bug. didnt know what it was till i looked it up.

We used to see them a lot, mostly at the end of their life cycle before and after they die. We'd often see their dried up brown skin that they shed before the buzzing and flying stage.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

as a kid i used to try and hunt them down if they sounded reachable. never even caught a glimpse of one. and we had tons back in the old neighborhood. maybe i was blind then too.