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Old 08-02-2015, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Franklin, TN
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My back yard in the evening is SO loud!! Are the cicadas back????



I thought we had another 10 years or so?? I haven't SEEN any of them but wow, SOMETHING is really loud in my back yard!
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Old 08-02-2015, 05:20 PM
 
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Look for a BIG bees nest in an unused shed, behind a wall, up in the rafters of something, up in a tree.

Do it after dark unless you want devoured by the buzzers.

If it is bees and they are making that big of a racket, I would pay a professional to get rid of them. Even though I'm sick of the phrase, I've "been there done that" with a second story bedroom wall, in an old house many years ago.
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Old 08-02-2015, 05:25 PM
 
Location: Bellevue
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My back yard in the evening is SO loud!! Are the cicadas back????



I thought we had another 10 years or so?? I haven't SEEN any of them but wow, SOMETHING is really loud in my back yard!
http://www.cicadamania.com/

There is a Brood 23 13 year version, found mostly in IL with some in Ky & west TN. They may be a 13 year bug. Others may be an annual bug, just as loud. Some call them "heat bugs". It isn't August without heat bugs.

If you have any trees near your back yard you may find old bug shells?

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Old 08-02-2015, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Franklin, TN
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Probably the annual ones.
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Old 08-02-2015, 10:51 PM
 
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I can hear them in the woods behind me and one was stuck in the netting of the trampoline today.
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Old 08-03-2015, 07:26 AM
 
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I believe they are back. They are not as loud as years before but I have found several shells in the couple days.
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Old 08-03-2015, 10:30 AM
 
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I have seen cicadas and they are loud. I assume they are the annual ones.
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Old 08-03-2015, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Nashville, TN
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Yeah I've noticed things that sound kinda like less obnoxious cicadas. They're almost like background noise to me where I am most of the time.
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Old 08-03-2015, 11:17 AM
 
Location: Franklin, TN
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YES! I thought so . .

Certainly not bees and not the gentle chirp chirp chirp cricket sound! I don't have a very big backyard at all! It would be called "outdoor space" in a listing. But I do have a few trees and it sounds like a PARTY going on back there! I can even hear them inside the house, I mean, THEY aren't inside but I can hear them through the walls.

We didn't get many cicadas during the Big Bug year (as opposed to the Big Flood year).
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Old 08-03-2015, 12:26 PM
 
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I have seen cicadas and they are loud. I assume they are the annual ones.
You mean there are more than one kind?
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