[Nick Danger]

Noisy buggers, aren't they?

Tell me about it. The air conditioner failed, so I had the windows open. The 1950's flying-saucer-movie noise was everywhere, but there was also a periodic EEEeeeowww noise that started out like a mechanical buzz and tapered off like a howling cat. I could not figure out what that was, until one of the damned things took up residence on the screen of my window.

EEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOWWWWW.

Oh. So the 'flying saucer' noise is really ten million eeeeooows going on simultaneously. They're ugly, too.

[Salamander]

"the 'flying saucer' noise"

More specifically, it's the sound of the Martian ships in "War of the Worlds".

Thank heaven somebody else made the connection...I was starting to worry about myself....;))

[Jonah Hex]

Yep, I remember the last cicada invasion oh so many years ago. Luckily, we managed to miss the majority of them down here in Tidewater but I still hear them as I drive by on my way to Aberdeen.

(As a kid in NC, we used to collect and trade their shells with each other. Who needed Yu-Gi-Oh when you had cicadas?)