Found it this afternoon. Big sucker.
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They are cicadas, but we always called them locusts growing up.
Cool thing on that wiki page is the different calls that they make in different countries.
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Thanks. I've heard of them.
Yeah, cicada ... the noisy suckers you hear in the evening.
kelbro
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Interesting lifecycles too. They live sub-surface for a long time before appearing.
I love listening to them when I get down South. They don't get this far up north.
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Cicadas are edible , and watching them molt is a real sight......
They seem to breed well on long hot summers. A few years back it was like a plague of them.
Interesting to hear the different songs around the world.
Interesting to hear the different songs around the world.
When I lived over in Pittsburgh, we had swarms of them. They were everywhere.
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House sparrow was chasing one through the yard last night.
Face to face on the sidewalk beside a very busy roadway...
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dave
Face to face on the sidewalk beside a very busy roadway...
dave
I remember my dad used to call them tree toads. Other locals used to call them that too.
This is what they sounded like, and is the kind I still hear now Dog-day Cicada
This is what they sounded like, and is the kind I still hear now Dog-day Cicada
I had one of these about 40 years ago. It was great for annoying the kids and wife. One day, just like a real Cicada, it disappeared. Unlike a real one, the plastic one didn't return after 17 years.
I've heard lots of people call them that. I've never understood it. Locusts are way different.
I love listening to them, And almost electrical buz in the air. One of the best sounds of summer!
In New York? They should be all over the entire state:
https://www.cicadamania.com/downloads/diversity-05-00166.pdf
Maybe it is just this area of NY, but all I hear in summer are crickets. When I visit my folks in Georgia or friends in Virginia, they seem to be everywhere.
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When I was a kid I thought the sound of the cicada was the transformers on the hydro poles overheating due to all the fans running. (Not too many people had AC back then)
It's definitely not the same all over New York.
On Long Island, it starts with one and then a few seconds later
it sounds like a zillion.
In Broome County, one cicada will be answered by another
and then it's over. I don't think most of the local people even notice them.
