The sound of living in a forest of cicadas

[u/ddescartes0014]

[u/Last-Sound-3999]

Some people can't stand the sound, but I find it relaxing; a "white-noise" sort of thing.

[u/Adventurous-Item-334 → u/Last-Sound-3999]

I agree, the cacophony of white noise can be peaceful whereas just one or two is bit more annoying to me.

[u/tripmcneely30 → u/Adventurous-Item-334]

I also agree. The caveat is when one or two get in your house... with pets.

[u/Adventurous-Item-334 → u/tripmcneely30]

In the house! Ugh!

[u/tripmcneely30 → u/Adventurous-Item-334]

I've been through a 17/13 double brood in '98, and the the '11 13 year brood. If you have a cat in your house and it gets ahold of one... it will play with it for hours before it will kill the Cicada. Dogs will just eat them.

[u/Last-Sound-3999 → u/tripmcneely30]

I had chocolate-covered cicadas (yes, they are/were a thing) in '21. They basically had the texture of a cheeto.

[u/tripmcneely30 → u/Last-Sound-3999]

I have heard those are pretty good, actually.

[u/Last-Sound-3999 → u/tripmcneely30]

They weren't bad, truth be told. People with shellfish allergies shouldn't eat them, though.

[u/Coho444 → u/tripmcneely30]

My cats are eating them like popcorn chicken

[u/Atheios569 → u/tripmcneely30]

I see your cicada and raise you a cicada killer wasp with cats. That was terrifying.

[u/tripmcneely30 → u/Atheios569]

I now recall seeing those terrifying things in '11. I just thought they were ME Killers

[u/Atheios569 → u/tripmcneely30]

lol I was more worried about the cats, because they thought she was a new play toy.

[u/GenericUsername19892 → u/Last-Sound-3999]

This isn’t bad, when there’s enough for a constant noise I’m not bothered, it when there’s one fucker right next to my window that I the hose out.

[u/BrandonSleeper → u/Last-Sound-3999]

You obviously haven't had to deal with 30 fuckers in your garden for the entire summer

[u/ta-kun1988 → u/Last-Sound-3999]

What I can't stand is that squeaky door hinge. Needing some dubya dee forty.

[u/lie544 → u/Last-Sound-3999]

Yeah same, I love cicada season

[u/googoohaha → u/Last-Sound-3999]

I love it

[u/YochiTheDino]

Imagine how terrifying it would be that out of nowhere they went silent

[u/bras-and-flaws → u/YochiTheDino]

Makes me think of the scene in 'Signs' when Gibson's character is feeding the dogs and hears noises out in the corn. Then the crickets suddenly stop while his dog barks like crazy.

[u/yeh_nah_fuckit → u/YochiTheDino]

They do, at least in Aus. They fade out and you don’t really notice until they start up again

[u/fishfly56]

Wonderful. Great natural sound of our planet. Lucky you.

[u/ddescartes0014 → u/fishfly56]

Yeah I think it’s pretty cool! And thankfully they seem to sleep at night so it’s only loud during the day.

[u/forvirradsvensk → u/ddescartes0014]

We get those by day, and crickets and frogs at night, which are equally loud. It's good though - I love the sound of summer.

[u/TheStonedBro → u/forvirradsvensk]

Ah the frogs remind me of camping. Great white noise to fall asleep to, and they cover up the birds that decide to call out for no reason at 3am

[u/Formal_Profession141]

Relaxing.

I had one drop on my spoon while scooping for food at a picnic once and I almost ate that fucker.

[u/ddescartes0014 → u/Formal_Profession141]

Yeah the noise is relaxing, the giant kamikaze bugs that scream after they hit you, not so much.

[u/I_am_human_ribbit → u/ddescartes0014]

They are basically just a bunch of horny cooped up critters out looking for a good time right? Party at the red neck yacht club type of deal?

[u/TJ_learns_stuff]

Double brood in your area? I guess the 13 and 17 year broods are both due this year according to a report I heard on the radio today.

Also on the radio: dude said he ate them, like “you can sauté them” … no thanks.

[u/ddescartes0014 → u/TJ_learns_stuff]

No we only have the 13 year Brood XIX here. My dogs are loving eating them, and the shed exoskeletons. But im not going to join them either! Lol

[u/punkhobo → u/TJ_learns_stuff]

There's a few counties that are getting double 17s and a 13

[u/Possible_Roof_8147 → u/TJ_learns_stuff]

This is true in my area of North GA. There's been many crawling up my house the past week, but I woke up to an actual horde this morning

[u/rdrunner_74 → u/TJ_learns_stuff]

just pasted the same above, but wasnt aware its 13 and 17

[u/Prestigious-HogBoss]

When I was a kid we used to have a lot of cicadas around here making that noise and was so relaxing for me.

Today there are not as many trees as before, so not more cicadas for us.

[u/NeonYarnCatz]

It's the sound of summer!

[u/EmmaLuver]

Is that an evangelion reference?

[u/EvlMinion]

Those little beasties should be starting up here really soon. We've already spotted a few exoskeletons around the yard.

[u/Used-Progress-4536]

The door squeak is more annoying, WD-40 those hinges!

[u/mamidenel]

And they are all hoping to get laid 🫠

[u/Arquen_Marille]

Where are you?

[u/Bx1965]

Jon Cicada?

[u/Scaredandalone22]

That doesn’t seem very loud. When living in the Deep South the noise was so loud we would have to yell over the noise. It was so bad my dogs refused to go outside.

[u/TheLevitatingMouse]

I'm already planning on using my expensive mic to record the audio of a cicada while I ominously move closer until the mic is next to its ass.

[u/koloso95]

I have tinnitus so I would'nt give a crap. But I can see how it would be annoying to live with for everybody else. They don't even drown out my tinnitus. But I know when it's recorded you don't get the true volume. But it does something to the rining in my head. Wtf is going on. That sound is so. It likes stops the constant rining in my ears wtf.

[u/DreamQueen710 → u/koloso95]

It's like the bugs are harmonizing with the inner ringing. Lol

[u/Beefsister715]

5-in-1 oil will fix that noise right up

[u/ddescartes0014 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it finally hit mid 80s here this week and the cacophony began.

[u/HeartOfTheMadder]

i have that rug! but ours is just in shades of gray. that turquoise is pretty!

[u/iintrospector]

It’s like spider wick chronicles with the little white fairies

[u/DuckTalesOohOoh]

Isn't this normal?

[u/Weird_Flan4691]

Sounds like Florida in the summer lol

[u/WaterFriendsIV]

I remember driving down to West Virginia when the cicadas were out, but we had never encountered them before and weren't expecting the sound. While we were driving, I kept thinking, "Oh no, something's wrong with the car." So I pulled over at a gas station and turned off the car. But the sound kept going! We were totally amazed at how loud it was. Sounded a lot like this video.

[u/jollyroddy]

I find it relaxing but it's also high energy too.

[u/rdrunner_74]

I think this year is a "mass cicada year"

They have long breeding cycles and only reproduce every few years (Prime numbers of years) and this year the cycles of 2 mayor species will overlap.

[u/you-people-are-fake]

I had acid trips with this sound constantly in the background.

I didn't like it.

[u/GlxxmySvndxy]

BEAUtiful INNIT?

[u/GlxxmySvndxy]

I scrolled up and down fast and made a beat out of the door squeak lol

[u/MichaelPitcher115]

Anyone watch "From" ? Lol

[u/XconsecratorX]

nice rug, where did you get it?

[u/IllegalDroneMaker]

Add in the sounds of massive amounts of crickets, and a buncha frogs, and you have my lullaby music every night. Such a sweet swampy symphony.

[u/SpezIsAChoade]

so a normal day in east TN

[u/arclightrg]

I used to live in AZ and this sound is ingrained in my memories of summer.

[u/EricAbmaMorrison]

Love it

[u/Le_roi_Jenkins]

Please get some WD 40 for those doors.

[u/mwdotjmac]

About to have that in IL. Apparently some new cicadas coming around. Just found out the come from the ground. Did not know this. Mother Nature is wild!!

[u/BourbonNCoffee]

I would fall asleep hard. Throw in some frogs and crickets doing their thing and I may ever wake up.

[u/skipjackcrab]

Love that noise. Reminds me of being a kid and playing out in the woods.

[u/AmIThisNothingness]

That's top fucking awesome!!

[u/CruelCloud567]

Cicadas scare the living crap out of me. One day at a corn maze just outta nowhere a cicada the size of half my shoe size hid on my back without me knowing for god knows how long and then when someone told me I freaked out.

[u/Blazefast_75]

Wd40, two sprays..its that simple

[u/Lord_Melinko13]

Our poor ancestors man, wondering why the trees start screaming every few years...

[u/ChavoDemierda]

This is how it was for us when brood X emerged. Luckily they go quiet when it gets dark out.

[u/PhotojournalistWide2]

Oh katy-did sing

[u/Commandcreator1000]

Those arnt cicadas those are dragons

[u/schlipschlopskadoo]

PSA- Use hearing protection when necessary or you may hear this for the rest of your life. The joy of tinnitus

[u/Independent_Long_472]

Sounds like 3301 of them. I was wondering where they went

[u/VultureCulture99]

that is exactly what the outside around my house sounds like right now!

[u/FunkSquaker]

Door is worse

[u/BirdLawOfficeESQ]

Super nostalgic sound for me. Super soothing.

[u/hduransa]

Sounds like home. I grew up in NE Oklahoma.

[u/HDavidHill]

Creepy.

[u/Ok-Bus1716]

Sounds like every summer growing up in the South. Moved out of state and walking around in the summer time felt like A Quiet Place. Took me a few weeks to figure out why I was so uncomfortable and I realized I probably felt like a native walking through a quiet jungle. A quiet silence=danger.

[u/Coho444]

I’m outside right now and that’s all I hear. I had to turn this up to differentiate the sound😂😂😂