[pseudomyxoma]

I always hear them on hot days but I've never actually seen one. Website was totally helpful trying to figure out which is in my area though.

They are natures microphone feedback

If I ever make a horror game I will use these mp3 clips for jump scares, they are shrill as a motherfucker

[Pizarro]

I remember when that one species came out several years ago, after like 23 years of being larvae. God damn there were so many dead ones one the ground and so many live ones on the trees of the forest preserve.

[zomaha]

They're loud as shit right now. Always used to signal that school was starting soon when I was a kid. My roommate actually stepped on one the other day as he was going out on the porch; the poor fella released one final EEEEEEEEEEE before dying.

[samus i am]

Cicadas are the dumbest creatures to ever walk the earth. Proof that there is no such thing as intelligent design.

[Jackben]

I wonder what the big deal is. Why don't people like them?

[Duane Cunningham]

Here in the Midwest US (KC), they're super loud right now everywhere you go. Even right now at a little after noon, I'm sitting at my desk at work, and when somebody open the front door, you can hear them just blaring in.

I really love the sound, though. It's very comforting and nostalgic. It just sounds like late summer.

[RangersFan]

their shells used to freak me the fuck out. i remember walking home from the bus stop every day and having to close my eyes every I passed trees full of those shells. i was such a pussy

[SeriousApes]

The cicadas in my area have been going non-stop since summer started and they go at it all day. It's annoying.

[Razgriz-Specter]

I wish some lived in my area, I love the sounds they make.

Its nice until you have a bunch near your house, then it starts to sound like New York traffic.

[Vicehii]

Pretty sure I heard Cicadas when I was visiting Florida once. Other than that, I can't say I have any experience with them.

Mole Crickets, on the other hand...

Similar sound to a Cicada in my opinion, but they're underground and you don't see them often.
Very fun hiking around the hills in SoCal as a kid and stomping on the ground to hear them scurry away under the soil.

[Seanspeed]

Its nice until you have a bunch near your house, then it starts to sound like New York traffic.

Yes it does. I live in a pretty quiet neighborhood and my house has a lake out back where we usually hang out by. Friends that come over are usually always, "Wow, its so quiet and peaceful here!" And I dont know what the hell they're talking about cuz there's cicadas calling everywhere and its ridiculously loud. We have planes flying overhead quite a bit being near an air base, but the cicadas are probably more annoying on the whole.

[NaturalHigh]

Eastern Kentucky has them every year. Sometimes it is in crazy amounts. Nothing tops the year that my yard became home to Cicada killer WASPS. Seriously thousands of them nested in our front yard. It was nearly impossible to mow the yard or go outside and run around out there for a few weeks. I had never seen them before that moment and haven't seen them since. It was so weird. They were pretty passive but still scary as shit.

Edit: Oh and they were pretty fucking big too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus

[Mad Pierrot]

Best insect. Their cry is so relaxing, and I always have sympathy for them because of how sad their life cycle is. They're lovely, gentle creatures and one of the few things I like about summer.

[Switters]

I live in Florida and love Cicada song. I don't think I could sleep without.

I took this picture of a Mississippi husk. It was the first one I had ever seen and haven't seen one since in Fl.

[Gamecocks625]

They also make a good sound effect for old school Hot Shots Golf for the original Playstation.

[Candeldandel]

Wow, I'm actually quite surprised at all the cicada love in this thread! It makes me happeh <3

I also love cicadas for their sounds and their shape and cute widdle faces <3<3 I actually plan on getting a bug tattoo someday, and a cicada will definitely be part of it. I only wish there were more around here (Oregon) because there are a few, but no where near the amount in the midwest or Japan.

So adorable!

[Akkad]

I hate these assholes, sometimes when I go running in the morning I see one on the ground and think it's dead (they usually are) and try and run by it, and then it starts moving and making that stupid sound freaking the shit out of me. Birds eat the alive, sometimes I see a bird flying with one of them between its beak screaming, lol.

[spindashing]

Bahaha, I'm dying.

[fritolay]

Aren't these locusts?

[DurielBlack]

I live in the sticks in the midwest and we hear them all the time. So used to it I basically don't even notice them anymore.

Crickets on the other hand are awful. I can't stand the sound they make. Die.

[H3xum]

I love Cicadas. I'm from just north west of Chicago in the burbs and I grew up with this sound, I seriously long for it in the spring and summer. I'm so comforted by that sound.

Shame I moved away, I want a white noise Cicada machine.

Crickets on the other hand are awful. I can't stand the sound they make. Die.

Whatttttt?!?!?!?!

[Mordeccai]

I live in the sticks in the midwest and we hear them all the time. So used to it I basically don't even notice them anymore. Crickets on the other hand are awful. I can't stand the sound they make. Die.

In high school when I was a junior the senior's prank was dropping several boxes full of crickets throughout the school.

They were in the walls, in the ceilings, hiding in bathrooms, and crunching under feet. Maintenance dudes walked around for a few days with shop vacs sucking all of them up. Some of the most torturous school days of my life.

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

2004 was the year they were supposed to boom here. They supposedly have a 10+ year life cycle and all come out at the same time like every 10 years.

17 years is the cycle in the DC area. They're goddamn everywhere. I'm not looking forward to 2021.

[Kitsunebaby]

Aren't these locusts?

Nope, locusts are a type of grasshopper. Also, cicadas don't ruin crops like locusts do.

[CFK]

They remind be a bit of Cell. Specilly when their cocoon breaks.

[Yasae]

Used to knock em outta trees with rocks. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee and they fell to the ground.

[cajunator]

Louisiana is chock full of these motherfuckers and I love them.
They fly around and crawl in your hair and stuff. Cicadas are the best.
The sound they make is epic and I hear it every summer everywhere.

[MIMIC]

One landed on my window last year and I got my camera and recorded it (too lazy to upload it) so I got a super close up of it.

I didn't know they were shaking their butts to make that noise. lol

[moonspeak]

Anyway, love them. Especially in a quiet afternoon as the sun sets.

Haha.

After watching the first episode god knows how many times, I will always associate Cicadas with Evangelion.

[Fusebox]

Lots of cicadas near my house but I associate the sound of them with anime more than anything else. Especially Lain, th cicadas in that make it so trippy.

[BlueWord]

I live in Cincinnati and every few years we get an infestation...This is from 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini_periodical_cicadas

I remember that shit, I was living in Chicago at the time. You would throw something into the trees and they'd just rain down. Was really unpleasant.

[Lucian Cat]

Used to have cicadas around my house when I lived in Victoria. Was so relaxing listening to them of an evening. Don't think we have them in south Australia. Haven't heard them at least :(

[LobLob]

When i was super young(10 or 11) and in military school we had one of those rare multi-year cicada events that was huge and our campus was just littered with these guys. Our campus which was all nature outside of the barracks and such was just a haven for them. On the weekend when us little guys actually had the chance to roam the campus freely, we would just walk the roads and marvel at all the cicadas that littered the ground like mulch or something all the while daring each other to eat one.

[CFK]

[YoungHav]

lmao!

[Daigoro]

cicadas are awesome. i was just thinking about them today when i was walking the dogs. there was an especially loud one out in the heat this morning.

[McNei1y]

I remember being a freshman in high school in 2004 and the summer was approaching. 2004 was the 17 year cycle and jeez it was nuts here in maryland. It was so hard to avoid stepping on shells because they were everywhere. Its kind of nuts how large of numbers they are.

[DonMigs85]

One of these things peed on me as a child

[Lamel]

just kamehameha to kill.

[nacire]

Took these at my parents house in Louisville, Ky a few years back.



I also lived in Orlando, FL. for a few years and we had a nest of Cicada Killers outside near the carport. One day I heard a loud thump and saw the giant wasp army crawling with a cicada, dragging it to the nest. This isn't a pic that I took, but it's exactly what it looked like.

[Typhoon_Ex]

I like them a mile away, when they are just outside your window FUCK THEM.

[I Stalk Alone]

I love cicadas. It helps me sleep since I slight have tinnitus. They also taste good when deep fried, but then again so does a shoe. If the cicadas don't come back during the summer the way they normally do, then the world is probably going to end.

[IrishNinja]

i literally only know these from animal crossing and many animus, so it's a happy association.
i like the crickets we get down here too though, but an exotic one is welcome too...im jealous of OP, looking forward to hearing these things as i travel. im sure they'd be mundane if they were always outside my window, but that's true of any sound.

[catfish]

Anyway, tl;dr cicadas are cool.

nope they're noisy dicks.


I once got out of my car and one was going bananas beside me in the bush. I took a closer look and it had pissed off a wasp with its crap noise, the wasp then proceeded to murder it. I cheered and then murdered the wasp. Wasps suck.

[Pizarro]

nope they're noisy dicks. I once got out of my car and one was going bananas beside me in the bush. I took a closer look and it had pissed off a wasp with its crap noise, the wasp then proceeded to murder it. I cheered and then murdered the wasp. Wasps suck.

Wasps and hornets are the assholes of the insect group.