Cicada noise???

[OnTheLedge]

Originally Posted by GonnaCatchABig1

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.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

as a kid i used to try and hunt them down if they sounded reachable. never even caught a glimpse of one. and we had tons back in the old neighborhood. maybe i was blind then too.