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Do you find them gross? I think they're cool!  :)

I hear them all the time. It is called tinnitus.  :-\\



Cat

I hear them all the time. It is called tinnitus.  :-\\



Cat


So you hear ringing in your ears after a hot summer's day of them screaming in the trees?
Anyways, aren't they disgusting looking? Yet I still like them. I must need a life!  8)

So you hear ringing in your ears after a hot summer's day of them screaming in the trees?
Anyways, aren't they disgusting looking? Yet I still like them. I must need a life!  8)



I hear them ALL THE TIME-in fact, I hear them right now. And the quieter the room, the louder they get.


And yeah, they are nasty looking.



Cat

So you hear ringing in your ears after a hot summer's day of them screaming in the trees?
Anyways, aren't they disgusting looking? Yet I still like them. I must need a life!  8)


They're ok, but on a hot summer day, they're quite ear piercing. :o

They're ok, but on a hot summer day, they're quite ear piercing. :o


Only the men cicadas make sounds, the women ones are silent. :o

You always see dead cicadas after the summer is over.

Boiled or fried?

Boiled or fried?


squashed like a bug!

Boiled or fried?


Some people eat them.  8-P

I don't judge people for eating them, but to me cicadas are disgusting for food!

I do catch them in a big jar, but I wouldn't eat them.

Some people eat them.  8-P

I don't judge people for eating them, but to me cicadas are disgusting for food!

I do catch them in a big jar, but I wouldn't eat them.
What do you do when you catch them in a big jar?

When we lived in CT we could hear them all the time, but clearly the locals had learned to tune them out because when we asked what the noise was people asked what noise?  We wondered for a while if it came from the overhead electric cables

Eventually we were out with a friend (an American we'd known in the UK) and asked her about it and she told us it was cicadas.  we only ever saw one on a tree outside a hotel in Secaucus, New Jersey, but we heard them all the time.

What do you do when you catch them in a big jar?


I usually catch them when they haven't shed yet. I watch them shed. It's actually quite a unique experience. Then once they're strong I let them go into the trees, or at least where they're safe from birds! Whether they live or die longer that's up to time.  8)

Some people eat them.  8-P

I don't judge people for eating them, but to me cicadas are disgusting for food!

I do catch them in a big jar, but I wouldn't eat them.


Cicadas need air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mah26og11ms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mah26og11ms


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Here's what the shells they come out of look like.

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Here's what the shells they come out of look like.


I've seen that before.

I remember back when I was ending second grade in 2004 back in VA, the cicadas came out. They were freaking EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All over the grass, all over the sidewalks, all over the playgrounds, all over the tracks, all over the EVERYTHING!!!!! And so many of them were dead! I remember alot of kids (myself included) would pick up living cicadas by their wings and they would buzz and try to fly away and they would look so hilarious lol. And there would be so many cicada skins everywhere too.  8-P That was over 10 years ago. The cicadas come out in swarms like that every 17 years, so the next that is supposed to happen is 2021. Oh goody...

now that the summer is over, the cicadas will be gone soon.

I STILL hear them. That is how my tinnitus sounds and my acupuncturist can't seem to help it.  :\'( :\'( :\'(



Cat 

They are really big. :o Like giant flies. And the sound they make you can hear one miles and miles away!

I wouldn't say they are gross, but it's like seeing a very big fly...which is a little scary ;D

Every summer every year I'd hear that noise and never know what it was. Then I looked it up. I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild either.

They are really big. :o Like giant flies. And the sound they make you can hear one miles and miles away!

I wouldn't say they are gross, but it's like seeing a very big fly...which is a little scary ;D


I used to pet them and they would fly away.

Every summer every year I'd hear that noise and never know what it was. Then I looked it up. I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild either.


and when the summer is over and the weather starts to get cooler, they disappear until next year.