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cicadas - are they here in the slope? — Brooklynian

cicadas - are they here in the slope?

gretel
gretel
edited November -1 in Park Slope
I remember scary big cicadas from when I lived in chicago back when I was a kid. they were everywhere. I heard there were coming here this summer. I have yet to see one. which is totally fine with me. but I am wondering will they really be in Park slope? Are they here now? is that the odd bug noise I hear outside?

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  • jeffrey
    jeffrey

    Subject: Re: cicadas - are they here in the slope?

    gretel wrote: I remember scary big cicadas from chicago when I was a kid. they were everywhere. I heard there were coming here this summer. I have yet to see one. which is totally fine with me. but I am wondering will they really be in Park slope? Are they here now? is that the odd bug noise I hear outside?
    I saw a *huge* one in its pre-wings stage just walking along the sidewalk near Prospect Park on Tuesday evening.
  • modsquad
    modsquad
    I honestly didn't know cicadas came from Chicago.
  • gretel
    gretel
    They don't come from Chicago. they are in various areas, including Chicago.
  • modsquad
    modsquad
    katydids. What about katydids. Do katydids come from Chicago? :-s
  • possibly_maybe
    possibly_maybe
    Yep, I'm hearing em constantly here by the Prospect Expressway.
  • belzjm
    belzjm
    i've been hearing them for the past week or so up in the north slope here.

    i love it. reminds me of when they used to wake me up as a kid on summer break...

    nice memories of easy times.
  • gretel
    gretel
    I think I am hearing them in the south slope by 9th street, but have yet to see anything. Last time I saw them they were like a blanket of bugs on the street in the Chicago suburbs. I wonder if it will be like that here in brooklyn?
  • rockergirl77
    rockergirl77
    I've been hearing katydids a lot in the past week or so around 8th Ave & 8th St.
  • modsquad
    modsquad
    modsquad wrote: katydids. What about katydids. Do katydids come from Chicago? :-s
    I'm sorry, it's my 2 cats. They've been posting without my permission again. I don't have that software that stops cats from posting.
    Any recommendations?
  • veets
    veets
    I was just sitting on my back porch... yup can hear them!
  • new2hood
    new2hood
    cicadas are those huge bugs that leave their shells on trees when they molt, correct? I remember seeing dozens and dozens of those shells on the tree in our front yard where I grew up one year. It was crazy!
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    new2hood wrote: cicadas are those huge bugs that leave their shells on trees when they molt, correct? I remember seeing dozens and dozens of those shells on the tree in our front yard where I grew up one year. It was crazy!
    Yeah, they're about 2" long and look sort of like long, wide-headed flies. And they're CRAZY loud.

    I saw a really little bird struggling desperately to pick one up in front of the Jewish a couple of days ago.
  • booklaw
    booklaw
    in front of the Jewish
    Where or what is the "Jewish"?
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    booklaw wrote:
    in front of the Jewish
    Where or what is the "Jewish"?
    Oh sorry -- the Jewish Hospital, formerly a hospital, now converted into apartments, on Park Place between Franklin and Classon. Which I realize is in Crown Heights, not Park Slope. So many people just call it "the Jewish" around here (and I was so sleepy) that I didn't think about clarifying -- or what board I was posting on, evidently. I really shouldn't post in the mornings until I've had my coffee. :)
  • booklaw
    booklaw
    Thank you... I've wondered about that ever since I first saw one of Sweet Tea's posts, showing her location as "the Jewish".
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    My favorite bug- (well, ties with the praying mantis... LOVE them)- cicadas' sound is so soothing and they eat "bad" bugs!
  • ljnd
    ljnd
    Yes, I find their sound soothing as well - I love it when they come "on" in late July.
  • lnelson
    lnelson
    Hate'em. Hate hate hate'em. Grew up in rural CT with a little sister who wasn't scared to touch and/or shove in my face the little suckers' molted exoskeletons. SHUDDER! These are the little bastards that psych out potential predators by going dormant for cycles of 13 or 17 years, so whatever lore their predators might have passed on from generation to generation is totally gone by the time they resurge, right? And when they start making their noise, it's like an increasingly loud hum escaping from the bowels of hell that goes on and on and then stops just when you can't stand it anymore and are about to write Congress and ask them to un-ban DDT? Or am I thinking of some other beastly arthropod?
  • johnnyrotten
    johnnyrotten

    Subject: cicadas are here

    so funny anyone should ask. just the other day I was asking my wife "where are all the cicadas I have been reading about. I've not heard a one". Sure enough, on Aug. 3rd, bam, the showed up in Park Slope. Every block I walk down I hear them now. There is something soothing about their loud racket of a chirp. They create a sound at something like 140 db which makes them one of the loudest insects on the earth.

    so to answer your question, yes, Vriginia, there are Cicadas in Park Slope. Just listen for the loud, constant high pitched growl as they search for a mate from the top of the trees.
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