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08-02-2008, 03:25 PM
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What is the buzzing in the trees?
Is it possible the buzzing noise I hear, which is loud and lasts about 30 seconds, is cicadas? I haven't seen any in my area and I thought they were done by now. Does anyone know? Has anyone seen any lately in the Delaware Water Gap area lately? thanks
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08-02-2008, 03:34 PM
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The Pocono's; Peaceful & Pretty
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I've been hearing them in Saylorsburg. that's what I thought it was, too.
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08-02-2008, 06:43 PM
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Life is a dance, you learn as you go.....
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Hubby said that also.........but, I didn't see them..........just that buzzing  |
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08-02-2008, 07:00 PM
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I believe that's what it is. We used to get them every summer in NJ. Usually started around mid July if I remember right..maybe a little later.
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08-02-2008, 07:02 PM
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Mostly I hear katydids. I think it's too late in the season for cicadas.
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08-03-2008, 10:07 AM
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It could be a cicada. I was at the Shoppes at Montage yesterday to meet a friend from Olyphant for lunch at Panera Bread, and while on my cell phone checking to see why she was running so late I noticed this big thing fall off of one of the eaves of one of the stores onto the sidewalk. It looked exactly like a cicada flopping around on its back. I was going to turn the poor guy over, being a hippie humanitarian, but I thought better of it as I would soon be eating an overpriced sandwich.  |
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08-05-2008, 12:49 PM
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babysitter here!~
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I think they are also called Locusts..?
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08-15-2008, 06:44 PM
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Cicadas... they look like huge flies, and vibrate plates in their thorax... which is what you hear.
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