Cicadas Jul23 '06
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# (2 of 3): Matthom
1 day, 3 hours after the fact. (Mon 24 Jul 2006, 12:52 PM CST)
Very interesting... I always thought the noise came from their wings rubbing together. Weird little creatures.
I’ve read that cicadas are more predominant in the eastern United States? Perhaps where you live has more?
# (3 of 3): Jennifer Grucza » jennifergrucza.com
1 day, 4 hours after the fact. (Mon 24 Jul 2006, 1:47 PM CST)
Well, I grew up in Champaign, IL, so much of my memories of cicadas are from then.
My little brother called them "wasper bugs" because of the sound...
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Looking up, I wondered if any of those ugly-looking bugs would fall directly on my head.
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# (1 of 3): Jennifer Grucza » jennifergrucza.com
1 day, 3 hours after the fact. (Mon 24 Jul 2006, 12:22 PM CST)
You made me curious, because I’m pretty sure I hear cicadas every year in the late summer, so I went and checked out the Wikipedia article on cicadas. Apparently, there are annual cicadas, which have a 2-3 year cycle (but they’re spaced out so that you get different batches each year) and there’s another kind which have a 13 or 17 year cycle. So I guess that’s what you were thinking of. But according to Wikipedia, the next scheduled appearance of these is next year, not this year, so maybe you’re just seeing the annual ones.
They also say that unlike crickets, cicadas don’t make noise by rubbing anything together. Rather, it’s some sort of vibration of a membrane on their abdomen.
I hate bugs too, though I’d take a cicada over a cockroach any day!