Posted by Noa on May 24, 2004, at 18:58:14
In reply to The Orgy in Your Backyard, posted by Jai Narayan on May 21, 2004, at 14:21:58
Can you believe the noise all those orgiastic cicadas are making! Don't they know how inconsiderate it is!!
There are two types of sounds--one is the close by sound of cicadas that is familiar, like other types of cicadas (not the 17 year kind). It's loud and annoying, but familiar. Just that it is much louder than other years. The really creepy sound is the far away sound coming from up there, out there, somewhere. It's a higher pitched white noisy sort of thing but it sounds like a fleet of alien ships about to land. This is the sound I hear when I go to work in the early morning, when my own backyard, neighborhood flock of cicadas still seems to be sleeping. It's an eeerie, twilight zone kind of sound....
The thing that bothers me the most is all the dead bodies! You gotta walk with eyes peeled to the ground to make your way around all the spent ones. I do hope they acheived their life's mission before expiring, and that they weren't taken before their time by some predator. Once in a while you see two interconnected ones lying there--kaput. Did they expire en flagrante, I wonder???
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