So I actually find the noise familiar and, dare I say: soothing somehow.
That's not weird at all--the sound of annual cicadas is a lovely, summery sound I enjoy too. It's a bit different with these 17-year cicadas. These guys so numerous that they've been piling up on sidewalks in some places, and as far as I can tell, cicadas in these numbers can be heard from a distance simply if they're all flapping their wings and not even deliberately making noise at all. Of course in the daytime, the little guys do make as much noise as they possibly can in order to attract mates, so that many people are investing in earplugs to keep themselves from losing their hearing when they go outside.
I still like the sounds cicadas make, actually. Well, I'm less fond of some than others. Until this year, I had never realized that sometimes cicadas scream.
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That's not weird at all--the sound of annual cicadas is a lovely, summery sound I enjoy too. It's a bit different with these 17-year cicadas. These guys so numerous that they've been piling up on sidewalks in some places, and as far as I can tell, cicadas in these numbers can be heard from a distance simply if they're all flapping their wings and not even deliberately making noise at all. Of course in the daytime, the little guys do make as much noise as they possibly can in order to attract mates, so that many people are investing in earplugs to keep themselves from losing their hearing when they go outside.
I still like the sounds cicadas make, actually. Well, I'm less fond of some than others. Until this year, I had never realized that sometimes cicadas scream.