Cicadas

The next time you have cicadas making their chirping in the trees by your house, go get your skillsaw and turn it on. you will be bombarded with the little buggers. The last time we had them carrying on here I was out back near a big oak tree cutting a piece of plywood. The first time I started cutting, a bunch of something was hitting me. The next time I pulled the trigger, one of the things that hit me bounced back and fell on the sheet of plywood so I could see what was going on. I went in the house and got the wife and we were amazed how they instantly reacted to the whine of the skillsaw. Every time I hit the trigger, here they came. It's a laugh.
 
It wasn't summer in Texas without the sound of the Locusts. My Granddad would give me a nickel for every one I shot out of a tree with my BB gun. Kept me out of his hair for hours. My dog loved to eat them and would then proceed to yak them up all over the house.
 
Cicadas are the sound of summer of my youth in NJ. Along with the katydids, spring peeper frogs, and bullfrogs.

Not many cicadas on Long Island, nor frogs where I am. Miss them. We do get the katydids which I love. I call it the sounds of the "night bugs".
 
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