Thread: Cicada noise???
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Old 06-17-2008, 02:28 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by GonnaCatchABig1 View Post

it's surprising with as loud as they are how impossible it is to see one. heard them every day of the summer my whole life and had never seen one till i was 21. it got blown into my window during a tropical storm. ugly things. i thought it might have come up from florida in the storm and finally got blown out onto my window. gigantic brightly colored bug. didnt know what it was till i looked it up.
We used to see them a lot, mostly at the end of their life cycle before and after they die. We'd often see their dried up brown skin that they shed before the buzzing and flying stage.
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