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[Chock Full o Nuts]

Should be any day here. Been a few reports around area, but nothing around me yet.
I kinda like seeing them. Wife is terrified of them with their creepy little red eyes!

 

[Bubber]

In Kentucky, saw a couple in Red River Gorge this last weekend. Not many though.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

In Kentucky, saw a couple in Red River Gorge this last weekend. Not many though.

Love RRG. Been quite a few years since been though.

 

[Felis Leo]

Should be any day here. Been a few reports around area, but nothing around me yet.
I kinda like seeing them. Wife is terrified of them with their creepy little red eyes!

I never traveled anywhere else in the United States that had cicadas. The only place I have ever been where they have them was Japan. They were really cool. I found their high-pitched whine that sounded like the static from a power line strangely charming.

 

[Threegoofs]

I never traveled anywhere else in the United States that had cicadas. The only place I have ever been where they have them was Japan. They were really cool. I found their high-pitched whine that sounded like the static from a power line strangely charming.

You should have come to Chicago last June. They were so loud you couldnt sit outside on the patio and have a conversation without shouting.

Bonus feature was all the crunchiness when you took a walk, and having to check yourself for cicadas every time you walked in the door - no matter if you were outside ten seconds or ten hours.

 

[BitterPill]

I never traveled anywhere else in the United States that had cicadas. The only place I have ever been where they have them was Japan. They were really cool. I found their high-pitched whine that sounded like the static from a power line strangely charming.

Every summer, they're big in Imperial County which is just east of San Diego County. The females, I presume, would sometimes come to investigate the lawn mower while I was mowing in 100 degree heat, and my dog, a Beagle named Chili Bea, loved to eat them, so I'd catch one, tear the last third of its wings off so it would only fly a few feet off the ground, and let it go so the dog could chase, catch and eat it.

The faces she made when they'd get stuck in her cheeks was hilarious.

For some reason, I don't recall ever hearing one in San Diego County which seems odd.

I did, however, hear cicadas when I visited Rome once, but those cicadas sounded very different from those I am familiar with.

 

[Helix]

Haven't seen (or heard) any yet.

 

[venice_ca]

To my knowledge I’ve never seen or heard a cicada.

There’s the odd grasshopper that appears every couple of summers. I imagine there’s little to nothing growing in this area to attract cicadas. Hummingbirds and butterflies, yes.

(Upside to the last extended drought and limits on yard watering, slugs and snails have disappeared. Or maybe they too are not attracted to what now grows in my yard.)

 

[BitterPill]

To my knowledge I’ve never seen or heard a cicada.

There’s the odd grasshopper that appears every couple of summers. I imagine there’s little to nothing growing in this area to attract cicadas. Hummingbirds and butterflies, yes.

(Upside to the last extended drought and limits on yard watering, slugs and snails have disappeared. Or maybe they too are not attracted to what now grows in my yard.)

If you ever heard them, I'm positive you'd know.

It would sometimes sound like a steady 70-80 decibels in the heat of summer.

You know what they don't have in Rome?

Spoiler

Hummingbirds

 

[venice_ca]

If you ever heard them, I'm positive you'd know.

It would sometimes sound like a steady 70-80 decibels in the heat of summer.

You know what they don't have in Rome?

Spoiler

Hummingbirds

Even when living in the San Fernando Valley growing up — with hellishly hot days in early September — I never heard anything like you describe. We did have crickets.

I had to look up hummingbirds in Rome/Italy — learned something too. One summer I did have hummingbird moths that would visit nectar plants at dusk. At first I was confused because I’d never seen hummers feeding at the time.

While there may be no hummingbirds in Italy, there is word for them — Colibri — maybe from the genus (but why that genus and not one of the others).

 

[RF667799]

A few years ago I was riding my trike in Kentucky during a hatch. I kept hearing something and for a bit was afraid it was something wrong with the trike. Then I realized it was the cicadas. I could hear them above the tires, engine, and wind noise as I passed especially heavy concentrations at 65 mph on the Interstate.

 

[Bubber]

They are ridiculously loud here! Haven't heard any yet in town, just in the country. But it won't be long...