This year’s cicada infestation in the Midwest is shocking. There’s a tree next to Klara’s school that cicadas really like, and the noise they make is like nothing I’ve heard before. It’s so loud that I can understand how a person can go crazy if forced to listen to it for some time.
Usually, you only hear cicadas. I had no idea what they even looked like until this year. But now sidewalks are strewn with them.
It’s a great nuisance.
“This year’s cicada infestation in the Midwest is shocking. There’s a tree next to Klara’s school that cicadas really like, and the noise they make is like…”
Hah, that’s the price you pay for living in the humid, muggy American Midwest. You should relocate to the beautiful dry Arizona desert, where I haven’t seen a flying insect in YEARS!
I remember the periodic cicada infestations from when I was a child back in Tennessee, and enjoyed them because the cicadas made great temporary pets — They were very easy to catch, didn’t bite or sting or carry harmful germs, and didn’t live long enough to be much trouble.
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… weebWEEBweebWEEB …
The background noise of Japan in late spring through summer.
But the Japanese say it as a “minMINminMIN” kind of sound, although it doesn’t sound like that to me at all. 🙂
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Aw, I think they’re kinda cute. Ha! But I am outside the double-hatch zone, so I don’t really encounter them much in. Besides, down in Austin, I think they, like the rest of us, come outside for about aa minute and go, “It’s like WAY too hot,” and go back into the air conditioning. 🙂
But I grew up in the “Greater Chicagoland Area”, so I sympathize … Hang in there. This too shall pass.
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