It's starting in NJ

[46er]

Cicada's that is. Nothing around here.

http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/the-brood-ii-emergence-has-begun/

 

[ecampbell]

I have been reading about their expected emergence and have been looking forward to it, I love their song! I have neither seen or heard one yet. So I went back to review my pictures from their last major apperance. One nice feature of digiutal pictures is that they have a date stamp. My pictures span the dates of May 13 to May 23 2004.
May 16, 2004

Maybe it was warmer then. We'll see.

 

[dogg57]

New Jersey's invasion of cicadas has started in the wake of two days of warm weather.
The insects have started to emerge from the soil in droves for the first time in 17 years and that could make for a noisy and buggy Memorial Day holiday weekend cookout.
They've been spotted in Tenafly, Wayne, Colonia, Fanwood, Mendham and Montclair.
Rutgers University entomologist George Hamilton tells The Record newspaper people with sunny, shade-free yards will likely get the first wave since cicadas leave their holes only after the soil temperature hits 64 degrees.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Cicadas-Arrival-NJ-208626181.html

 

[Boyd]

I think they are here. Starting last Monday I heard a loud noise in the distance outside and thought it was something mechanical, like a big generator or air conditioner or something. Sort of a high pitched whirring sound. Then I remember mistaking the cicada's for the same kind of thing when they were here before.

But it;s sort of a "diffused" sound and hard to tell exactly where it's coming from. When I walk around the woods out back, I don't hear it locally. It's off in the distance somewhere to the Northwest, which is mostly private land. It's heavily wooded right around my house, so maybe they're in a clearing like a field in the distance.

Wherever they are, it must be really loud when you get right on top of them. It's quite noticeable here inside my house. Anybody else seeing or hearing them yet?

 

[46er]

Nuttin around here.

This is what they sound like. Unless there are bazillions by you, I doubt you would hear them in your house from a distance.

http://www.cicadamania.com/audio/#Magicicada

 

[Boyd]

Yes, that sounds like what I hear. They are definitely off in the distance somewhere, maybe 1/4 mile away, so I guess there are bazillions. I can hear them right now inside, with the windows closed but air conditioning off. If you were talking to someone or if there were ambient mechanical noise you probably wouldn't hear them. But in a quiet room they are very noticeable.

I just opened the window and put an MXL 840 (small diaphragm condenser) microphone out on the porch to record this in Logic Pro with an audio interface. It won't play in my browser for some reason, but it should work if you right-click and download to your computer. http://stephencreek.com/njpb/cicada.mp3

 

[46er]

Have you ever seen the movie 'Them'? Your audio sure sounds like them

 

[Boyd]

Haha - just so happens that I watched that movie again over the weekend. What a classic, with James Whitmore, James Arness and Edmund Gwenn (Santa Claus from Miracle on 34th Street) as the scientist. Fess Parker even has a cameo! I think the scenes in the storm sewers at the end must have been one of the inspirations for James Cameron in Aliens.

 

[46er]

It's a classic, of that there is no doubt. Up there with the original 'Thing'.

 

[Boyd]

I have noticed that during the afternoon heat, the cicadas get much more quiet. Right now I can barely hear them. Seems like they are loudest in the morning.

 

[Teegate]

I have noticed that during the afternoon heat, the cicadas get much more quiet. Right now I can barely hear them. Seems like they are loudest in the morning.

Nothing at all around here so far.

 

[46er]

I have noticed that during the afternoon heat, the cicadas get much more quiet. Right now I can barely hear them. Seems like they are loudest in the morning.

They may be on the way out; they don't live very long. I've read its about 2 weeks.

 

[dogg57]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video/#!/news/local/Cicadas-Come-Up-for-a-Brief-Fling/209581891

 

[46er]

A tracking map at the link. Some great recipes too.

If you got 'em, post 'em.

http://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/

 

[Boyd]

I submitted a report. I see there is another report a few miles from me.

 

[46er]

Report's on the NJ Birding site are reporting 'millions' of them Woodbridge to Bridgewater, 'tree's dripping with them'. Folks are claiming to hear them in their car while drving on I-287 with windows closed.

Thankfully, none here. I don't recall them the last time either

 

[Boyd]

Still singing away down here.

 

[Teegate]

Nothing at all here still.

 

[Teegate]

Here is a video that is a must see. It is about 8 minutes long but worth every minute. Watch it at full screen Enjoy!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/cicada-time-lapse-video-by-samuel-orr_n_3361789.html

 

[Ben Ruset]

Nothing here, either. Asbury Park is currently infested with mayflies though. So gross.