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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
Posted on 05/14/2011 10:39:34 AM PDT by decimon
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To: CaliforniaCon
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.
To: decimon
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!
To: decimon
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posted on
05/14/2011 11:58:41 AM PDT
by
Teflonic
To: decimon
I can deal with the Cicadas, it’s the damn frogs that are driving me nuts.
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posted on
05/14/2011 11:59:29 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
I can deal with the Cicadas, its the damn frogs that are driving me nuts.Drain the swamp. ;-)
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posted on
05/14/2011 12:09:16 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: Teflonic
...their jewellery is flying off the shelvesI refuse to notice that. ;-)
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05/14/2011 12:11:56 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon; TaraP
Someone on another thread is saying it’s a sign that the end of the world is upon us.
To: Siena Dreaming
Someone on another thread is saying its a sign that the end of the world is upon us.Everything is a sign that the end of the world is upon us.
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05/14/2011 12:21:55 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: Gumption
Do you use dead Cicada”s.
How do you know hol long they have been dead, does it matter?
To: CaliforniaCon
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.
To: CaliforniaCon
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.
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05/14/2011 12:47:36 PM PDT
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Mmmike
To: Mmmike
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 -
To: Georgia Girl 2
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05/14/2011 1:05:39 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing to America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are..)
To: WackySam
There are several different species so one or more shows
up most years. The 13 year version all shows up at once.
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posted on
05/14/2011 1:18:20 PM PDT
by
WePledge
(Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
To: decimon
One of the few benefits of tinnitus: cicadas? what cicadas?
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05/14/2011 1:21:48 PM PDT
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FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: Crawdad
Cicada shells in a cigar box....brings back memories. Thanks!
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05/14/2011 1:22:52 PM PDT
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FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: BattleHymn
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.
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