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Can You Hear It? The Cicadas Are Back
- 11thEarlOfMar 10y agoMy recollection is of the cat eating them and a neighbor kid chasing them with a tennis racket. The noise isn't really deafening, but it is loud enough to make it impossible to sleep with windows open. And there are rare years where both the 13 and 17 types happen together. That must be an experience.
- jacquesm 10y agoI've seen them cover a gas station (entirely) in Northern Canada. Quite a sight. Impossible to get in/out of the car without picking up a few hundred of them. You couldn't walk without crushing them, they'd cover you in a few seconds. Nightmare territory. I never expected to have to use the wipers in order to see where I'm going because of insects. This happened just south of Sudbury, it was a relatively local phenomenon, which surprised me, I always thought it was supposed to happen for 100's of kilometers but that wasn't the case. Still, the damage to the crops must have been unbelievable.
- mchahn 10y agoI've read that there are cicadas with a period of over a hundred years. I wonder how they were discovered. Also... When Bob Dylan got an honorary degree at princeton, the cicada's were out in full force. He wrote a song about it.