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To: Crocodile who wrote (62582)	5/10/2002 2:42:16 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<It was probably a Cicada, which some people call locusts.>> Last year must have been the 17th year because we had a bunch of them. One limb on an elm tree had over 30 of the shells hanging on the bottom of it.

To: Crocodile who wrote (62582)	5/10/2002 3:01:14 PM
From: Justin C	Respond to of 71178

Cicada is indeed the name I was grasping for. Your description matches, except that ours did their musical number in the early evening and I think they had an intro that went click-click-click-click, like an old tractor springing to life, just before the long loud drone set in.

To: Crocodile who wrote (62582)	5/25/2002 1:43:07 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.