Are you prepared for the CICADA NOISE this Spring?

[AviatorTom]

Cicada on a Leaf

Cicadas are noisy insects (from 2 to 7 cm (1 to 3 in) long) with an unusual life cycle. They burrow in groups underground and stay there for years at a time, emerging together, and then making a lot of noise as part of their mating cycle.

"Entomologist Floyd W. Shockley wants to mentally prepare you for a historic—and loud—event this spring: two cicada groups emerging simultaneously. The last time Brood XIX, which has a 13-year cycle, and Brood XIII, which has a 17-year cycle, emerged in the same year was in 1803, when Napoleon was presumably so fed up by their mating calls that he sold the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson. The cicadas’ bacchanal will begin in late April. Then they won’t appear together for another 221 years." [courtesy Morning Brew]

His Quote: “Nobody alive today will see it happen again.”

Are you prepared for the cicadas?

[sage2021]

I'm not sure if they have CICADA'S in South East Tennessee. Do you know?

I do remember hearing those loud, male horny mating calls when I was trying to go to sleep from katydids.

It sounded like there were other creatures making noises in the night along with the sounds of the katydids.

I got used to it, but it took a while. I was a west coast girl and I was used to sounds like fog horns and ocean waves splashing. I live 2 short blocks from the Pacific ocean.

To go from that to katydids. Well, I think I care for the nature of the ocean noises better than some horny bug screaming so loud because he needs to get laid. 🙂

[AviatorTom]

I found this...
Cicadas can be found in the US from northern Georgia to New York, west to the Mississippi River and in the Midwest. From around mid-May to late June, cicadas will pop up in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee in the southeast and south, and Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in the Midwest. Annual cicadas are found throughout North America and the rest of the world, while periodical cicadas are currently only found in the eastern US and some parts of the Midwest.

[Dargil]

we have some of them in Chattanooga but not dense populations like Florida and South coastal states. In central Mindanao in the jungle, they were huge and deafening.

[Daniela1982]

@sage2021 Do you live anywhere close to Orange County, Calif? or someplace in the Pacific NW? I have never heard any cicadas in California. I do know they have some in the Illinois area.

[Amy10223]

The last time I saw and heard those creatures! was in 2013. It was terrible. One of them flew into my car as I waited for my daughter to take pictures at her graduation. Landed right on the passenger seat.

It did give me some satisfaction when I saw my neighbor screaming when one landed on her shoulder, outside in her backyard. She was a pain to say the least. lol

[Amy10223]

Thanks for the MHO

[RavVid]

That is interesting as to years. I'd always been told 7 years as a child so I checked and yes Aussie circadas have a 7 year cycle. It seems that there annual circadas (and are what we have) whilst yours are periodical circadas.

Learnt something - thanks. Disappointing circadas haven't made it big enough to get into spell check.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I saw the caps... thought you were talking about project code names... was going to say can we be talking about that here?

[Daniela1982]

I was at my sister's house a couple years ago and they never shut up. They are supposed to be the loudest insects in the world, and I can hear why. We found their empty skins attached to branches and even the wall.

[ArrowheadSW]

@daniela1982 What part of the US was this?

[Daniela1982]

@ArrowheadSW It was the Chicago area. The cicadas there are greenish and don't have red eyes though.

[ArrowheadSW]

@daniela1982 I've been in areas where they have these katydids. They gather in trees by the hundreds and they sound like machinery. Very loud. Much of the US has them in the summer. Thankfully not here. LOL

[Daniela1982]

@ArrowheadSW A katydid and Cicada are not the same thing. A katydid is a lot like a grasshopper.

[ArrowheadSW]

@daniela1982 Right. They are not the same. By my wording, it looks like I was implying that they were the same but I didn't mean to. LOL 😂

[Sirenboobzilla]

I remember being petrified by them when I was a kid. But during their last 17 year swarm, I learned that they're harmless. The noise was a bit annoying at times. Worst part was just having to clean them off my windshield.

[purplepoppy]

We don't have them in the UK thankfully. Do they really live underground for 17 years? Must be a feast for the local wildlife.

[Dargil]

Been in the hot tropics in the jungle. You can't hear people talk. Small animals eat them like candy.

[Phoenix98]

Really the only place you find cicada's in Kansas is in the plains n prairies. Lighting bugs are what we get a lot of.

[exitseven]

I don't mind the sounds of nature. I listen to frogs, peepers, coyotes, all kinds of birds and many other animals. Cicadas are okay with me.

[Daniela1982]

Sounds of nature , huh? How about a good toot now and then?

[exitseven]

@Daniela1982 what kind of animal gives a toot?

[Daniela1982]

I know dogs do. And aren't we animals too? At least a lot of guys are. 😂😅

[exitseven]

@Daniela1982 I had a cat that used to toot sometimes

[FunkyMonkee]

I doubt very much that it's gonna bother me.

[Sparkie460]

I live by a wooded area and I hear all different types of animals and gun shots since I'm close to a shooting range. I just tune it all out

[AnusNdaPainus]

i was raised in the south cicadas help me sleep

[ArrowheadSW]

Thankfully they don't live in my part of the US.

[SotiCoto]

Cicada noises are only something I know from anime. There are no cicadas here in real life.

[Likes2drive]

Yeah, I don’t mind it but they never come out until the beginning of July over here in New York

[Demonatrix]

I don't think it will be a problem here.

[RebelinSteel]

I have a feeling I won’t be hearing them

[Roudyrebel8]

Cicadas don't bother me

[msc545]

Sure - I find the noise comforting.

[Daniela1982]

They can be. We were camping once and were down by the river laying in our sleeping bags, looking at the Milky Way and listening to the crickets, bull frogs, and cicadas. Then, all of a sudden they all went silent at the same time. Talk about weird. Freaked us out.

[electromagnetic]

Yuck 🤮

[Zorgz]

Yeah, I'm used to it

[love_conquers_lust]

Biocacaphony.

[shortster]

Nobody is; it is going to be terrible.