Hear that buzzing? 13-year cicadas are back in U.S. South (sounds like mother ship in the woods)

Reuters ^ | May 13, 2011 | David Beasley

[afraidfortherepublic]

it was the weekend parents were getting their kids enrolled at Princeton.

The cicadas were operating in full voice on parents' and students' orientation at Texas Tech University in 1979. I have never heard such a sound. The trees positively shrieked and vibrated. I think it was August.

[BattleHymn]

We went camping in South Dakota last year in the middle of the summer. The wife found it hard to sleep, because of the lack of cicada noise!

[Teflonic]

Sisters who make earrings from the wings of cicadas say their jewellery is flying off the shelves

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386962/The-ultimate-recycling-jewellery-lustrous-wings-dead-insects.html

[dfwgator]

I can deal with the Cicadas, it’s the damn frogs that are driving me nuts.

[decimon]

I can deal with the Cicadas, it’s the damn frogs that are driving me nuts.

Drain the swamp. ;-)

[decimon]

...their jewellery is flying off the shelves

I refuse to notice that. ;-)

[Siena Dreaming]

Someone on another thread is saying it’s a sign that the end of the world is upon us.

[decimon]

Someone on another thread is saying it’s a sign that the end of the world is upon us.

Everything is a sign that the end of the world is upon us.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Do you use dead Cicada”s.
How do you know hol long they have been dead, does it matter?

[miss marmelstein]

Here in Jersey we get them in August - September - we always called them locusts. They are loudest on the hottest days. Sounds like a buzzsaw.

[Mmmike]

Might it have been 2004 instead? That summer, I went to visit family in Virginia for a couple weeks and they were all over the place and as loud as they could be. In 2005 I was living in NJ and don’t remember them being as you describe.

[CaliforniaCon]

Yes, it was 2004 — back to school time — craziest sound I’ve ever heard — hot and humid day — mid-day actually. Just heard it in one area of Princeton, NJ -

[B4Ranch]

That’s protein.

[WePledge]

There are several different species so one or more shows
up most years. The 13 year version all shows up at once.

[FourPeas]

One of the few benefits of tinnitus: cicadas? what cicadas?

[FourPeas]

Cicada shells in a cigar box....brings back memories. Thanks!

[Calvin Locke]

I was wondering about the strange noise last night.

I thought it was one of the fans in the pc going, so I spent time
checking and oiling the suspect fans, and it didn't help.

I finally zeroed in on a partially open window The noise was cyclically
intermittent, so it couldn't have been too many.