Earliest you've ever heard a cicada?

[CyPride]

I had one humming last evening near the back yard in WDM. I must guess this is the earliest in the season I've ever heard one. Signs of early fall or winter, or just a product of being 6 weeks ahead of schedule, weather-wise this year?

anyone else heard one this year?

 

[terryk]

I had one humming last evening near the back yard in WDM. I must guess this is the earliest in the season I've ever heard one. Signs of early fall or winter, or just a product of being 6 weeks ahead of schedule, weather-wise this year?

anyone else heard one this year?

was it playing the hok fight song?

 

[ZJohnson]

12:01 am

 

[cysox2]

I hear them all the time. In the middle of winter Ive been told its called tinitis or something. It is very annoying!

 

[southernfriedCY]

I hear them all the time. In the middle of winter Ive been told its called tinitis or something. It is very annoying!

^^^^Yeah, me too. Got it real bad. Is there a cure?

 

[Agkistrodon]

As with anything in biology, there's always something or someone that doesn't follow the rules. It could be that one, or a handful of cicadas just emerged a few weeks early due to natural variation in their emergence cycles. Even among the periodic cicadas there will be a few that emerge in the "wrong" year.

 

[NickTheGreat]

No cicadas, but I saw a firefly last night.

 

[cysox2]

^^^^Yeah, me too. Got it real bad. Is there a cure?

yep, get married. a nagging wife somehow drowns them out.....but that of course leads to far more problems

 

[cysox2]

^^^^Yeah, me too. Got it real bad. Is there a cure?

As far as i know there is no cure. i have to sleep with a fan on or some sort of background noise, that seems to cancel it out.

 

[vortex]

No cicadas, but I saw a firefly last night.

I've seen lightning bugs for the last few nights...that is at least two or three weeks early. Corn is four feet tall in some places. Everything is running weeks early this year.

 

[Boxerdaddy]

No cicadas, but I saw a firefly last night.

I saw my first of those over a week ago...I was like wtf? Then a few more this past week. Weird. Cats and dogs living together...mass hysteria.


And yes it's true.....

 

[Malone]

Holy freaking crap its the offseason

 

[Cyclonepride]

Heard my first at least two weeks ago and thought that was pretty freaking odd.

 

[Agclone91]

Saw a few little grasshoppers yesterday and today. It's really early for those too.

 

[Ciclone]

Everything is running weeks early this year.

I don't suppose we'll be lucky enough to have the cicadas stop weeks earlier, too?

 

[CyBer]

I hear them all the time. In the middle of winter Ive been told its called tinitis or something. It is very annoying!

This drives me insane when I'm trying to sleep.

 

[Prone2Clone]

They sound like a bar-full of tavern hawks.

 

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

June bugs are everywhere...cuz it's June.

 

[BallSoHard4Cy]

I spray my town with cicada repelent.

I guess that's why they call me,

THE EX-TERMINATOR

 

[greatshu]

Love cicadas, especially the 17 year kinds.

They are in full force here in Kansas. I guess we get them at least week earlier down here.