I've been reading this page on cicadas and trying to listen to the audio clips so I'll know exactly what I'm hearing from our local critters. Sadly, I'm having some trouble distinguishing the sounds on the computer from the sounds in the real world--turning up the volume on my machine helps, but turning down the volume on the bugs outside would help so much more.
What I really want to know is this: If cicadas sing their mating songs in sunlit treetops from morning to evening as long as adults are around (which is what assorted web pages tell me), what the heck is that noise I keep hearing at one in the a.m.? Do cicadas snore (at high pitch)? Do the people who write these web pages live in soundproofed homes where they never hear the noises after dark? Or is the Mother Ship using the emergence of periodical cicadas as camouflage, thinking nobody will notice a little alien noise as long as billyuns and billyuns of bugs are around?
What I really want to know is this: If cicadas sing their mating songs in sunlit treetops from morning to evening as long as adults are around (which is what assorted web pages tell me), what the heck is that noise I keep hearing at one in the a.m.? Do cicadas snore (at high pitch)? Do the people who write these web pages live in soundproofed homes where they never hear the noises after dark? Or is the Mother Ship using the emergence of periodical cicadas as camouflage, thinking nobody will notice a little alien noise as long as billyuns and billyuns of bugs are around?
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