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To: Crocodile who wrote (62582)	5/25/2002 1:43:07 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 71178

In the mid-Atlantic states where I grew up, there were two types of cicada I'd hear on a nice muggy August afternoon. One made a fast "zha-zha-zha-" sound like a pulse sprinkler in backup mode. (Maybe that is the saweblade kind?) The second (and bearer of my favorite summer sound) made a long looping buzzing "bweEEEEweEEEEweEEEE..." song with about one second per bweEEEE.A typical male would sing a set of fifteen or twenty bweewees, then fly to another tree and try his luck there. And of course there are the seventeen-year cicadas. My first banner year for them was 1970 in Maryland. I also experienced '87 in New Jersey. Unlike the every-summer cicadas, the seventeen-year variety makes a continuous sound instead of a several-second discrete call. And the sound of the 17s in full cry is EXACTLY like the sound of continuous phaser fire from the old original Star Trek series. Scotty, I need More Power!! I hope to go east on cicada haj in '04. If I remember, May-June was the season, with a surprisingly short one-week peak.

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