cicadas

Have you got the 17 yr. cicadas in your area? We do.

They finally arrived out of their holes last week, where they have apparently been dormant for the past 17 yrs. When I first heard their noise I thought it was some sort of siren in town. Then when it didn't stop, I thought that perhaps an alien spaceship was hovering in the woods nearby. The sound is a high pitched, motory sort of sound that never ceases. On top of that, we have the regular cicadas that make that sort of whirring sound, a little lower in pitch. I took Gil to a nearby park for a walk today. The sound was super loud there. I believe there is a large concentration of the 17 year cicadas there. Here is some photographic evidence.