Have you heard the cicada's?

[JerryNumbers]

Have you heard the cicada's where you live? They're sounding off quite loud in this part of the country.

[Pastor Matt]

Nope. Not here.

[Covenanter]

No, but plenty of blackbirds challenging each other. I try to echo one & keep up a whistling challenge. Occasionally I win, & he flies away.

Our garden in Southampton was almost the last place where the cicada's relative, the mole cricket (gryllotalpa) made it's last stand in England. A cricket 2" long, with front feet designed like a mole's for burrowing. With a call to match.

[HappyChristian]

Not yet. But the birds are loud - I love waking up to them in the mornings! It's warming up here (ugh), so I'm sure we'll be hearing the cicadas soon.

[JerryNumbers]

How nice not to have them, they've been going full blast for a couple of weeks, very annoying.

[HappyChristian]

How nice not to have them, they've been going full blast for a couple of weeks, very annoying.

I actually kind of like to hear them. Tree frogs, cicadas all remind me of childhood summer nights.

[JerryNumbers]

I actually kind of like to hear them. Tree frogs, cicadas all remind me of childhood summer nights.

Yes, but the cicadas drown out the birds and frogs, and there is nothing pretty about the sounds they make..

[heartstrings]

Heard them last night, along with the crickets. The woods are about 40' from our back yard, but you can't hear them in the house. I love the sounds of the outdoors. When I was a kid, we once lived in a one room cabin next to a swamp. It just had 1" thick board walls and a tin roof with no ceiling and no insualtion. So I could lie there in my bunk and listen to the owls, crickets and a chorus of a million frogs coming out of that swamp. In the Spring, a little bird would come in through a hole near the roof and nest in one of the rafters. I would watch her come in and could hear her babies as she fed them.

[JerryNumbers]

When I was young when the windows were up in the summer I could hear the Whip-poor-will's singing down on the branch. Haven't head any of them in years.

[Auburn88]

Don't have cicadas here. I miss them.

But on the other hand, there's nothing quite as nice as listening to the breeze blow through the corn on a summer evening. Last night was so nice that my dog and I took the golf cart up to one of the fields and just walked. He chased deer and one fox, while I walked along and listened.

It's very peaceful to hear the wind through the corn, just punctuated every few minutes by an owl calling his mate.

A team of wild horses couldn't drag me back to the city.

[Invicta]

Yes, but the cicadas drown out the birds and frogs, and there is nothing pretty about the sounds they make..

U.S. states braced for invasion of cicadas as they hatch after 13 years underground

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1386233/US-states-braced-cicadas-invasion-hatch-13-years-underground.html#ixzz1OzzqFipD

[amblivion]

Surprisingly I haven't heard them here yet. It has certainly been hot enough.

I sure hope the cicadas don't invade my part of AR!

[JerryNumbers]

They seem to have now played out, I know longer hear their song, and I am happy not hearing their song. I would just rather hear the birds, frogs, and such.

In my part of Arkansas its already feels like summer, and summer comes to us officially on the 21. Its hot, dry, with a warm wind blowing briskly, burn ban is in effect. I think our temp today hit just over 98º. Its on its way down now setting at 97.4º.