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Old 08-11-2008, 10:55 AM
 
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I live in east Tenn on Tellico Lake(very wooded lot). The noise at night is almost deafening. One neighbor said it was tree frogs, the other a cicada or like bug.
Which is it? I know cicada's come around every 17 yrs or so.
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Old 08-11-2008, 11:02 AM
 
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I live in east Tenn on Tellico Lake(very wooded lot). The noise at night is almost deafening. One neighbor said it was tree frogs, the other a cicada or like bug.
Which is it? I know cicada's come around every 17 yrs or so.
There are certain types of cicadas which come out over 17 years or so, but there are also cicadas that are here all the time. If the noise you hear is so deafening it might be the 17-year variety. But after they burrow back underground, you'll still hear cicadas although much quieter ones.
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Old 08-11-2008, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Stanwood, Washington
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Glad I like where we have no bugs that make noise, day or night; and none that make the roads smell; and none that crack my windshields; and none that knock me off my bike.
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Old 08-11-2008, 06:06 PM
 
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Glad I like where we have no bugs that make noise, day or night; and none that make the roads smell; and none that crack my windshields; and none that knock me off my bike.
Nothing like that here, this isn't Texas or the southwest.
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Old 08-11-2008, 06:29 PM
 
Location: Knoxville
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Cicadas for sure, the 17 year ones are just louder and more of them those years.
Frogs maybe - Tellico lake? - maybe plus.

Might even be a few barking Spiders too.
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Old 08-11-2008, 07:03 PM
 
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The noise is louder this year than the past two, for me at least.

And to the guy that trolled through, the sounds at night in The South are beautiful. I can't get enough of it, and I wouldn't be able to adjust to dead silence.

Besides, our bugs are not big as Buicks. You have to go to Florida for that. Since I've lived here, I've never been bitten by a mosquito or an ant.
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Old 08-11-2008, 07:30 PM
 
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The noise is louder this year than the past two, for me at least.

And to the guy that trolled through, the sounds at night in The South are beautiful. I can't get enough of it, and I wouldn't be able to adjust to dead silence.

Besides, our bugs are not big as Buicks. You have to go to Florida for that. Since I've lived here, I've never been bitten by a mosquito or an ant.
Amen! I love our Sounds of Summer. A warm summer night just isn't a warm summer night without the lull of the cicadas and the twinkling of the fireflies. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Old 08-11-2008, 09:20 PM
 
Location: America, Inc.
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The noise is louder this year than the past two, for me at least.

And to the guy that trolled through, the sounds at night in The South are beautiful. I can't get enough of it, and I wouldn't be able to adjust to dead silence.

Besides, our bugs are not big as Buicks. You have to go to Florida for that. Since I've lived here, I've never been bitten by a mosquito or an ant.
You haven't been bitten by a mosquito since living here?!
You can come to my house if you are growing nostalgic for Florida...
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Old 08-11-2008, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Banana Republic, LA
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Whaaatttt??? I think I may have found paradise! No mosquito bites, no big bugs? I'm moving to Knoxville in a year or two.
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Old 08-11-2008, 10:05 PM
 
Location: Atlanta suburb
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Smile What a choir the cicada presents!

I just have to add this link to Wikipedia - which I do like and trust, BTW. It has a great add-on: the song of the cicada. You can listen to the song and perhaps identify your source of night sounds, qkwalski.

According to Wikipedia, however, most of the 2500 species of cicada prefer to do their singing in the heat of the day. Interesting.
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