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That's one LOUD bug
When we moved from Berkeley to West Lafayette, I was expecting that the nights would be noticably quieter, since there wouldn't be so much ambient urban noise. How wrong I was!
Around sundown each evening the cicadas would fire up their unearthly, buzzing, whining, hum, and it is much louder than the gentle murmer of the distant freeway that I used to hear in Berkeley.
I actually like the sound, so it's not a problem for me - it was just a bit of a surprise.
The cicadas also make their presence known by leaving their empty larval shells hanging all over the sides of trees, houses, bushes, etc. The larvae live under the ground for a few years, then crawl out, climb the nearest vertical surface, and hang there until they split open and the adult comes out. Over the summer we collected nine or ten of the shells, and could have had a lot more if we wanted them.
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